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Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.

Quincy Jones

The process is the most beautiful part.
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Beautiful Part Process
I’ve always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, “Ain’t that the truth.”
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Laughter Loud Myself Truth
It’s amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don’t have anything else to do.
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Trouble Yourself
If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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Mom Music Myself
We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don’t think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.
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Myself See Steal Thinking Time Touch
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
Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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Paint Record School
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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Better Life Move Myself Way
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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Harmony Himself Imagination Old Person Young
Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.
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Age End Myself Practice Time
My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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Early Memories Myself
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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Boundary Limitation Love Myself Relationship Time
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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Life Myself Need Record Tribute
I was the most subtle person in the world.
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Myself Person World
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
Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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Children Writing Yourself

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