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It’s amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don’t have anything else to do.

Quincy Jones

Did you know you would become as successful as you have? Hell, no. But you know what? You were prepared, baby.
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Inspirational Preparation Success Yourself
I’ve met every freak in the business.
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Business Freak Myself
Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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Arrangement Myself Writing
Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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Game Play Profit
They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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Blind Dog Finding Food
I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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Music Player Record
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Architecture Frozen Music
Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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Children Writing Yourself
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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Ground Industry Myself Place
I’m a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.
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Believe Music Myself Support
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
If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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Mom Music Myself
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
Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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Act Excellence Habit Myself
My grandmother had this high-tech security system – a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
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Door Lock Mom Problem Security System
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

It’s amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don’t have anything else to do.

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