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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

They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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Blind Dog Finding Food
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
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
You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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Afraid 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
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
The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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Act Arrangement Record
A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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Beautiful Color Rose Song
My grandmother had this high-tech security system – a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
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Door Lock Mom Problem Security System
China’s got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain’t right.
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People Right Unfair Yourself
Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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Act Excellence Habit Myself
Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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Children Writing Yourself
Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
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Acceptance Confidence Myself Worth Yourself
The process is the most beautiful part.
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Beautiful Part Process
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
We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don’t think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.
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Myself See Steal Thinking Time Touch

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

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