I don’t remember feeling love.
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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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 chose the trombone because the trombone players in the marching band got to be up front with the majorettes (because of the slides) and I loved that!
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I 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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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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Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
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They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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I don’t deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn’t deserve that, either. So I’ll keep it.
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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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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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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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A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that’s the bottom line.
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I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you’re supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.
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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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When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
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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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