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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

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
My dream is to put together a performance of the evolution of black music with Cirque du Soleil . I would also like to do street opera and children’s books. But even as I work toward these things, I want to simplify my life.
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Book Children Dreams Music Myself Performance Simplicity Togetherness
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
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
The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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Act Arrangement Record
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
You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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God Goodness Learning Mistake
A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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Beautiful Color Rose Song
When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
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Deep Fall Place Speed Yourself
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Architecture Frozen Music
Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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Game Play Profit
If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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Mom Music Myself
Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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Children Writing Yourself
I don’t deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn’t deserve that, either. So I’ll keep it.
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Award Brain Deserve Fame Myself Operation
Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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Act Excellence Habit Myself
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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