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Quincy Jones

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’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
Let’s not get too full of ourselves. Let’s leave space for God to come into the room.
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God Leaving Ourselves Religious Room Space
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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Learning Listening Reality Talk Yourself
Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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Arrangement Myself Writing
You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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Afraid Yourself
It’s the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear.
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Attitude Darkness Fear Life Light Love Man
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
What happens when you get a big break and you haven’t prepared yourself? That becomes the biggest mistake you’ve ever made. I see it happen all the time.
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Break Mistake Preparation Time Yourself
My son is a hip-hop producer.
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Job Myself Production Son
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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Movie Music Rhythm
They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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Blind Dog Finding Food
The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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Act Arrangement Record
I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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Heart Love Myself
Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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Children Writing Yourself
Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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Artist Death True World

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