I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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 married for 36 years but now I’m free.
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If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You’re dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle.
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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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The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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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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Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.
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You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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The process is the most beautiful part.
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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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Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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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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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That’s the soul of a country.
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You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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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 found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
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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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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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I’ve met every freak in the business.
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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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When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
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A lot of the guys were like that – Oscar Pettiford – they just took me under their wing, and that’s why I automatically help young people. I just love it, because they did that for me.
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I was the most subtle person in the world.
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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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It’s the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear.
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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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