Let’s not get too full of ourselves. Let’s leave space for God to come into the room.
QUINCY JONESHell, 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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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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Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
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I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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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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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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Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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I was the most subtle person in the world.
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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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Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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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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I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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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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The process is the most beautiful part.
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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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