If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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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The process is the most beautiful part.
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Let’s not get too full of ourselves. Let’s leave space for God to come into the room.
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I was the most subtle person in the world.
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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That’s the soul of a country.
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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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I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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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 improvised my life along the way – I just moved step-by-step. And I knew that if I got better, something would happen.
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I’m never in my life going to do a record that’s a tribute to myself. I don’t need it.
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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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Every day you must be able to say, I have to get up because I’m needed by someone. As long as you have that, you’re healthy.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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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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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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Whenever a woman would come too close, I would cut her off. Part of that was vindictive – but that was totally subconscious.
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