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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

I don’t remember feeling love.
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Feeling Love Myself Remember
If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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Mom Music Myself
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
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
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
All the jazz guys had interracial relationships, and even the ladies did. Over the years, interracial relationships have been a hip, almost defiant thing, a way of saying “Nobody can put a boundary around me.”
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Boundary Limitation Love Myself Relationship Time
I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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Heart Love Myself
I was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
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Divorce Freedom Marriage Myself
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
You have to know that your real home is within.
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Home Reality Spiritual Yourself
I look back and say, “This must have been somebody else.” I am not going to tell you that when I was 4, I dreamed about all of this.
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Age Dreams Myself Past Time View
A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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Beautiful Color Rose Song
Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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Act Excellence Habit Myself
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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Movie Music Rhythm
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 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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