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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

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
It’s amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don’t have anything else to do.
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Trouble Yourself
I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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Believe Flow Greatness Lyrics Myself
I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.
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Ground Industry Myself Place
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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Myself See Steal Thinking Time Touch
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 never felt like I had a mother.
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Feeling Mom Myself
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
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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Movie Music Rhythm
Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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Children Writing Yourself
Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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Game Play Profit
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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Attitude Darkness Fear Life Light Love Man
I’ve met every freak in the business.
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Business Freak Myself
I was the most subtle person in the world.
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Myself Person World
The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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Bad Music Myself
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

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