Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
QUINCY JONESA bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that’s the bottom line.
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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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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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I don’t deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn’t deserve that, either. So I’ll keep it.
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Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to come along and upset everybody.
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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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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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I don’t remember feeling love.
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It’s amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don’t have anything else to do.
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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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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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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 great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer – you put a great song on top of that, you’re really in great shape!
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I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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