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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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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 day, my daddy told me the same thing. ‘Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it’s done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.’
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Beginning Day Father Greatness Myself Small
The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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Act Arrangement Record
The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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Bad Music Myself
Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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Children Writing Yourself
I’ve met every freak in the business.
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Business Freak Myself
You have to know that your real home is within.
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Home Reality Spiritual Yourself
Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.
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Harmony Himself Imagination Old Person Young
My son is a hip-hop producer.
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Job Myself Production Son
Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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Paint Record School
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
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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Change Music Thinking Understand War Worst 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
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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Movie Music Rhythm
I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you’re supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.
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Learning Listening Reality Talk Yourself
Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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Arrangement Myself Writing

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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