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My son is a hip-hop producer.

Quincy Jones

Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to come along and upset everybody.
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Children Come Music Upset
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
My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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Early Memories Myself
Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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Artist Death True World
The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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Bad Music Myself
Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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Paint Record School
Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.
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Harmony Himself Imagination Old Person Young
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
Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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Act Excellence Habit Myself
I was the most subtle person in the world.
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Myself Person World
Whenever a woman would come too close, I would cut her off. Part of that was vindictive – but that was totally subconscious.
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Consciousness Myself Woman
Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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Game Play Profit
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
I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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Music Player Record
I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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Believe Flow Greatness Lyrics Myself
I’m a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.
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Believe Music Myself Support
A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer – you put a great song on top of that, you’re really in great shape!
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Greatness Singer Sound Yourself
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’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
A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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Beautiful Color Rose Song
The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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Act Arrangement Record
Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That’s the soul of a country.
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Country Food Language Music Soul
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
My son is a hip-hop producer.
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Job Myself Production Son
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
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

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