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Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.

Quincy Jones

Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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Children Writing Yourself
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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Day Health Need Talk Yourself
I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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Heart Love Myself
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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Big Deal Experience Start World Yourself
I was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
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Divorce Freedom Marriage Myself
I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.
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Ground Industry Myself Place
My grandmother had this high-tech security system – a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
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Door Lock Mom Problem Security System
When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.
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Father Hard Work Institution Mental Ourselves
All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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Love Music Relationship Woman
Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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Paint Record School
The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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Bad Music Myself
I never felt like I had a mother.
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Feeling Mom Myself
They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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Blind Dog Finding Food
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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Break Mistake Preparation Time Yourself
A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer – you put a great song on top of that, you’re really in great shape!
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Greatness Singer Sound Yourself
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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People Right Unfair Yourself

Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.

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