When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
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A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that’s the bottom line.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
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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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Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
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You have to know that your real home is within.
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Let’s not get too full of ourselves. Let’s leave space for God to come into the room.
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You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
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Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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The process is the most beautiful part.
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Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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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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The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You’re dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle.
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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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Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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