Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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 was the most subtle person in the world.
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All the jazz guys had interracial relationships, and even the ladies did. Over the years, interracial relationships have been a hip, almost defiant thing, a way of saying “Nobody can put a boundary around me.”
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A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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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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The relationship with a producer and an artist is really special. It’s got to be love and respect, amazing mutual respect for each other, because that’s what makes a good record.
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You have to know that your real home is within.
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They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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The process is the most beautiful part.
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Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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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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Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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