I was the most subtle person in the world.
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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When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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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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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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I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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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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Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
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My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
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I was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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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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A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that’s the bottom line.
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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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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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