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You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.

Quincy Jones

My son is a hip-hop producer.
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Job Myself Production Son
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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Movie Music Rhythm
I never felt like I had a mother.
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Feeling Mom Myself
Did you know you would become as successful as you have? Hell, no. But you know what? You were prepared, baby.
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Inspirational Preparation Success Yourself
When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
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Deep Fall Place Speed Yourself
Every day you must be able to say, I have to get up because I’m needed by someone. As long as you have that, you’re healthy.
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Day Health Need Talk Yourself
You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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Afraid Yourself
I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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Heart Love Myself
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
They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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Blind Dog Finding Food
I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.
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Ground Industry Myself Place
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Architecture Frozen Music
I’ve always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, “Ain’t that the truth.”
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Laughter Loud Myself Truth
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
I chose the trombone because the trombone players in the marching band got to be up front with the majorettes (because of the slides) and I loved that!
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Choice Love Myself Player

You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.

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