A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that’s the bottom line.
QUINCY JONESWhen 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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You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
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My grandmother had this high-tech security system – a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
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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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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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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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I’ve always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, “Ain’t that the truth.”
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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.
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The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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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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I’m a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.
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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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