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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’ve always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, “Ain’t that the truth.”
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Laughter Loud Myself Truth
I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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Believe Flow Greatness Lyrics Myself
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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Artist Goodness Love Production Relationship Respect
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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Life Myself Need Record Tribute
Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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Paint Record School
You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
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God Harmony Melody Music Study Yourself
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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Boundary Limitation Love Myself Relationship Time
You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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God Goodness Learning Mistake
China’s got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain’t right.
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People Right Unfair Yourself
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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Children Come Music Upset
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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Love Myself People Wings
I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you’re supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.
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Learning Listening Reality Talk Yourself
When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
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Deep Fall Place Speed Yourself
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
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
I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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Heart Love Myself

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