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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.

Quincy Jones

Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.
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Children Criticism Greatness Love Mindset Peace Yourself
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
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
When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
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Deep Fall Place Speed Yourself
I’ve met every freak in the business.
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Business Freak Myself
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Architecture Frozen Music
The process is the most beautiful part.
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Beautiful Part Process
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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Better Life Move Myself Way
I don’t deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn’t deserve that, either. So I’ll keep it.
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Award Brain Deserve Fame Myself Operation
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
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
I don’t remember feeling love.
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Feeling Love Myself Remember
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
You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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God Goodness Learning Mistake
The relationship with a producer and an artist is really special. It’s got to be love and respect, amazing mutual respect for each other, because that’s what makes a good record.
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Artist Goodness Love Production Relationship Respect
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

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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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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