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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

Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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Game Play Profit
The relationship with a producer and an artist is really special. It’s got to be love and respect, amazing mutual respect for each other, because that’s what makes a good record.
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Artist Goodness Love Production Relationship Respect
Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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Paint Record School
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
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
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
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
I was the most subtle person in the world.
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Myself Person World
You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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God Goodness Learning Mistake
The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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Act Arrangement Record
Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. ‘Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it’s done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.’
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Beginning Day Father Greatness Myself Small
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
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
I never felt like I had a mother.
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Feeling Mom Myself
I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
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Hope Imagination Myself Society Start

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

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