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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

You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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Afraid Yourself
I’m never in my life going to do a record that’s a tribute to myself. I don’t need it.
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Life Myself Need Record Tribute
It’s the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear.
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Attitude Darkness Fear Life Light Love Man
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
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
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
Let’s not get too full of ourselves. Let’s leave space for God to come into the room.
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God Leaving Ourselves Religious Room Space
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
My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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Early Memories Myself
Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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Game Play Profit
I was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
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Divorce Freedom Marriage Myself
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
A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer – you put a great song on top of that, you’re really in great shape!
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Greatness Singer Sound Yourself
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
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
A lot of the guys were like that – Oscar Pettiford – they just took me under their wing, and that’s why I automatically help young people. I just love it, because they did that for me.
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Love Myself People Wings

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

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