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Quincy Jones

When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
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Deep Fall Place Speed Yourself
After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it’s worse than ever.
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Change Music Thinking Understand War Worst Yourself
I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
QUINCY JONES

Believe Flow Greatness Lyrics Myself
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
All the jazz guys had interracial relationships, and even the ladies did. Over the years, interracial relationships have been a hip, almost defiant thing, a way of saying “Nobody can put a boundary around me.”
QUINCY JONES

Boundary Limitation Love Myself Relationship Time
I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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Heart Love Myself
The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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Act Arrangement Record
My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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Early Memories Myself
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
Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. ‘Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it’s done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.’
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Beginning Day Father Greatness Myself Small
You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
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God Harmony Melody Music Study Yourself
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
Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
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Acceptance Confidence Myself Worth Yourself
You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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God Goodness Learning Mistake
It’s amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don’t have anything else to do.
QUINCY JONES

Trouble Yourself
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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Hope Imagination Myself Society Start
Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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Paint Record School
I don’t deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn’t deserve that, either. So I’ll keep it.
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Award Brain Deserve Fame Myself Operation
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.
QUINCY JONES

Day Health Need Talk Yourself
I never felt like I had a mother.
QUINCY JONES

Feeling Mom Myself
My grandmother had this high-tech security system – a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
QUINCY JONES

Door Lock Mom Problem Security System
The 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.
QUINCY JONES

Artist Goodness Love Production Relationship Respect
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.
QUINCY JONES

Learning Listening Reality Talk Yourself
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
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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Movie Music Rhythm
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Architecture Frozen Music
Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That’s the soul of a country.
QUINCY JONES

Country Food Language Music Soul

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