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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

Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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Paint Record School
I never felt like I had a mother.
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Feeling Mom Myself
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
I don’t remember feeling love.
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Feeling Love Myself Remember
Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.
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Age End Myself Practice Time
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 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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Choice Love Myself Player
We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don’t think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.
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Myself See Steal Thinking Time Touch
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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Movie Music Rhythm
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
Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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Act Excellence Habit Myself
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
I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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Music Player Record
My son is a hip-hop producer.
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Job Myself Production Son
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
You have to know that your real home is within.
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Home Reality Spiritual Yourself

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