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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

A person’s age can be determined by the degree of pain he experiences when he comes in contact with a new idea.
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Age Degree Determination Himself Ideas Person
The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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Bad Music Myself
You have to know that your real home is within.
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Home Reality Spiritual Yourself
A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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Beautiful Color Rose Song
I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
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Economics Money Myself Racism
China’s got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain’t right.
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People Right Unfair Yourself
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
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
All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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Love Music Relationship Woman
I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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Music Player Record
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 was the most subtle person in the world.
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Myself Person World
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Architecture Frozen Music
I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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Heart Love Myself
I improvised my life along the way – I just moved step-by-step. And I knew that if I got better, something would happen.
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Better Life Move Myself Way
A lot of the guys were like that – Oscar Pettiford – they just took me under their wing, and that’s why I automatically help young people. I just love it, because they did that for me.
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Love Myself People Wings

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