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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

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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Life Myself Need Record Tribute
I don’t remember feeling love.
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Feeling Love Myself Remember
I’ve met every freak in the business.
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Business Freak Myself
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
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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Movie Music Rhythm
Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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Paint Record School
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
Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
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People Travel Young Yourself
Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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Act Excellence Habit Myself
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
My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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Early Memories Myself
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
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
I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
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Economics Money Myself Racism
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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Myself See Steal Thinking Time Touch
You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
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God Harmony Melody Music Study 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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