Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That’s the soul of a country.
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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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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Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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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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If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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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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All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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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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The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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