A person’s age can be determined by the degree of pain he experiences when he comes in contact with a new idea.
QUINCY JONESI look back and say, “This must have been somebody else.” I am not going to tell you that when I was 4, I dreamed about all of this.
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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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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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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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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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You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
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I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
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I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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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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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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I don’t remember feeling love.
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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That’s the soul of a country.
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When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
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Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.
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