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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.

Quincy Jones

Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.
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Children Criticism Greatness Love Mindset Peace Yourself
The process is the most beautiful part.
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Beautiful Part Process
Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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Children Writing Yourself
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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Movie Music Rhythm
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 was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
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Divorce Freedom Marriage Myself
What happens when you get a big break and you haven’t prepared yourself? That becomes the biggest mistake you’ve ever made. I see it happen all the time.
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Break Mistake Preparation Time Yourself
Every day you must be able to say, I have to get up because I’m needed by someone. As long as you have that, you’re healthy.
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Day Health Need Talk Yourself
Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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Arrangement Myself Writing
Let’s not get too full of ourselves. Let’s leave space for God to come into the room.
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God Leaving Ourselves Religious Room Space
Did you know you would become as successful as you have? Hell, no. But you know what? You were prepared, baby.
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Inspirational Preparation Success Yourself
I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
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Hope Imagination Myself Society Start
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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Greatness Singer Sound Yourself
A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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Beautiful Color Rose Song
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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Book Children Dreams Music Myself Performance Simplicity Togetherness
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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Age Degree Determination Himself Ideas Person

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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