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I’m a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.

Quincy Jones

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
Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.
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Children Criticism Greatness Love Mindset Peace Yourself
I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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Heart Love Myself
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
If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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Mom Music Myself
Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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Paint Record School
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
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
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
I’ve met every freak in the business.
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Business Freak Myself
You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
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God Harmony Melody Music Study 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
I never felt like I had a mother.
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Feeling Mom Myself
The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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Act Arrangement Record
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

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