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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

If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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Mom Music Myself
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
Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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Game Play Profit
My son is a hip-hop producer.
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Job Myself Production Son
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’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
All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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Love Music Relationship Woman
Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
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People Travel Young Yourself
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Architecture Frozen Music
Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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Art Emotional Important Military Yourself
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 have to know that your real home is within.
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Home Reality Spiritual 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
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
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
Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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Act Excellence Habit Myself

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

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