Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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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Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
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I’m a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.
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You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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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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Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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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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I’ve met every freak in the business.
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Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. ‘Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it’s done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.’
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You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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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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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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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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I don’t remember feeling love.
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A person’s age can be determined by the degree of pain he experiences when he comes in contact with a new idea.
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