You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
QUINCY JONESYou cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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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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Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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I don’t remember feeling love.
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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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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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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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I look back and say, “This must have been somebody else.” I am not going to tell you that when I was 4, I dreamed about all of this.
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You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
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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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A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that’s the bottom line.
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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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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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Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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