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.”
QUINCY JONESA bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that’s the bottom line.
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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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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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If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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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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I’m a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.
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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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All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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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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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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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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A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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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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