I’ve met every freak in the business.
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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Did you know you would become as successful as you have? Hell, no. But you know what? You were prepared, baby.
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A lot of the guys were like that – Oscar Pettiford – they just took me under their wing, and that’s why I automatically help young people. I just love it, because they did that for me.
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It’s easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.
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I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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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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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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I was the most subtle person in the world.
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Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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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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The process is the most beautiful part.
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I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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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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A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that’s the bottom line.
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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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