A person’s age can be determined by the degree of pain he experiences when he comes in contact with a new idea.
QUINCY JONESI’ve always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, “Ain’t that the truth.”
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A lot of the guys were like that – Oscar Pettiford – they just took me under their wing, and that’s why I automatically help young people. I just love it, because they did that for me.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it’s worse than ever.
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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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I improvised my life along the way – I just moved step-by-step. And I knew that if I got better, something would happen.
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Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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I was the most subtle person in the world.
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Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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Let’s not get too full of ourselves. Let’s leave space for God to come into the room.
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If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You’re dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle.
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I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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