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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 was the most subtle person in the world.
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Myself Person World
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
After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it’s worse than ever.
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Change Music Thinking Understand War Worst Yourself
They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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Blind Dog Finding Food
I don’t deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn’t deserve that, either. So I’ll keep it.
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Award Brain Deserve Fame Myself Operation
My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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Early Memories Myself
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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Movie Music Rhythm
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
I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you’re supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.
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Learning Listening Reality Talk Yourself
You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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Afraid Yourself
A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that’s the bottom line.
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Bad Myself Save Sing Song
I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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Heart Love Myself
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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Inspirational Preparation Success Yourself
I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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Music Player Record
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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Better Life Move Myself Way

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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