I don’t remember feeling love.
QUINCY JONESArts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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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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A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that’s the bottom line.
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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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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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I never felt like I had a mother.
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I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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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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Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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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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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That’s the soul of a country.
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Whenever a woman would come too close, I would cut her off. Part of that was vindictive – but that was totally subconscious.
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The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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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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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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If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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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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When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
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I’m a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.
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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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I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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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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Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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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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Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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