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

Quincy Jones

A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer – you put a great song on top of that, you’re really in great shape!
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Greatness Singer Sound Yourself
It’s amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don’t have anything else to do.
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Trouble Yourself
Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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Act Excellence Habit Myself
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
I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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Heart Love Myself
I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
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Economics Money Myself Racism
I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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Music Player Record
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
A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that’s the bottom line.
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Bad Myself Save Sing Song
Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That’s the soul of a country.
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Country Food Language Music Soul
It’s the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear.
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Attitude Darkness Fear Life Light Love Man
My grandmother had this high-tech security system – a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
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Door Lock Mom Problem Security System
Whenever a woman would come too close, I would cut her off. Part of that was vindictive – but that was totally subconscious.
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Consciousness Myself Woman
Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
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Acceptance Confidence Myself Worth Yourself
The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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Act Arrangement Record
Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to come along and upset everybody.
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Children Come Music Upset

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

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