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A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that’s the bottom line.

Quincy Jones

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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Age Dreams Myself Past Time View
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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Father Hard Work Institution Mental Ourselves
Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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Art Emotional Important Military Yourself
My grandmother had this high-tech security system – a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
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Door Lock Mom Problem Security System
If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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Mom Music Myself
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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Movie Music Rhythm
Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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Act Excellence Habit Myself
A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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Beautiful Color Rose Song
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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Book Children Dreams Music Myself Performance Simplicity Togetherness
My son is a hip-hop producer.
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Job Myself Production Son
Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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Paint Record School
The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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Act Arrangement Record
I chose the trombone because the trombone players in the marching band got to be up front with the majorettes (because of the slides) and I loved that!
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Choice Love Myself Player
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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Better Life Move Myself Way
Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
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Acceptance Confidence Myself Worth Yourself
What happens when you get a big break and you haven’t prepared yourself? That becomes the biggest mistake you’ve ever made. I see it happen all the time.
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Break Mistake Preparation Time Yourself

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