You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
QUINCY JONESEditing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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I don’t remember feeling love.
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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.
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My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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I’m a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.
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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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Let’s not get too full of ourselves. Let’s leave space for God to come into the room.
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The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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China’s got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain’t right.
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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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Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. ‘Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it’s done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.’
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They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it’s worse than ever.
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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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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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