The only music I don’t like is bad music.
QUINCY JONESThe 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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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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I was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
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They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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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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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 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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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
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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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My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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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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