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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 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
I was the most subtle person in the world.
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Myself Person World
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
I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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Music Player Record
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
Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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Children Writing Yourself
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
My son is a hip-hop producer.
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Job Myself Production Son
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
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
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 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
If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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Mom Music Myself
Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.
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Age End Myself Practice Time
My dream is to put together a performance of the evolution of black music with Cirque du Soleil . I would also like to do street opera and children’s books. But even as I work toward these things, I want to simplify my life.
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Book Children Dreams Music Myself Performance Simplicity Togetherness

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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