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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.

Quincy Jones

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
The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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Act Arrangement Record
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
Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
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Acceptance Confidence Myself Worth 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
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
They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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Blind Dog Finding Food
I was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
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Divorce Freedom Marriage Myself
Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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Children Writing Yourself
Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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Game Play Profit
I’ve met every freak in the business.
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Business Freak Myself
You have to know that your real home is within.
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Home Reality Spiritual Yourself
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
I was the most subtle person in the world.
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Myself Person World
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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Learning Listening Reality Talk Yourself
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

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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