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Quincy Jones

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
A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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Beautiful Color Rose Song
I’m a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.
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Believe Music Myself Support
You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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Afraid 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
It’s easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.
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Class Easy Music Reminder Theory Yourself
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 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
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 was the most subtle person in the world.
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Myself Person World
I never felt like I had a mother.
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Feeling Mom Myself
Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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Children Writing Yourself
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
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
The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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Act Arrangement Record
I was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
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Divorce Freedom Marriage Myself

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