You have to know that your real home is within.
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 just a musician and a record producer.
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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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A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.
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I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.
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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don’t think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.
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Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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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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Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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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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Let’s not get too full of ourselves. Let’s leave space for God to come into the room.
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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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