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When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.

Quincy Jones

A person’s age can be determined by the degree of pain he experiences when he comes in contact with a new idea.
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Age Degree Determination Himself Ideas Person
Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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Game Play Profit
I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.
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Ground Industry Myself Place
I’m never in my life going to do a record that’s a tribute to myself. I don’t need it.
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Life Myself Need Record Tribute
When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.
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Father Hard Work Institution Mental Ourselves
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Architecture Frozen Music
It’s easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.
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Class Easy Music Reminder Theory Yourself
Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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Art Emotional Important Military Yourself
Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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Children Writing Yourself
Let’s not get too full of ourselves. Let’s leave space for God to come into the room.
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God Leaving Ourselves Religious Room Space
When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
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Deep Fall Place Speed Yourself
The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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Bad Music Myself
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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Big Deal Experience Start World Yourself
All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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Love Music Relationship Woman
My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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Early Memories Myself
We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don’t think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.
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Myself See Steal Thinking Time Touch

When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.

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