Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
QUINCY JONESI 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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I’m a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.
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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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I never felt like I had a mother.
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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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Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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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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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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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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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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Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you’re supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.
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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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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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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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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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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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I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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You have to know that your real home is within.
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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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I don’t remember feeling love.
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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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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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Whenever a woman would come too close, I would cut her off. Part of that was vindictive – but that was totally subconscious.
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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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