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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.

Quincy Jones

If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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Mom Music Myself
It’s the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear.
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Attitude Darkness Fear Life Light Love Man
I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
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Hope Imagination Myself Society Start
My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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Early Memories Myself
Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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Children Writing Yourself
Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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Paint Record School
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
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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Love Myself People Wings
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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Age Degree Determination Himself Ideas Person
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
My dream is to put together a performance of the evolution of black music with Cirque du Soleil . I would also like to do street opera and children’s books. But even as I work toward these things, I want to simplify my life.
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Book Children Dreams Music Myself Performance Simplicity Togetherness
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Architecture Frozen Music
Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
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Acceptance Confidence Myself Worth Yourself
Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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Art Emotional Important Military Yourself
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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Age End Myself Practice Time
It’s amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don’t have anything else to do.
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Trouble Yourself

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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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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