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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 just a musician and a record producer.
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Music Player Record
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
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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Children Come Music Upset
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 song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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Beautiful Color Rose Song
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
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
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’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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Believe Flow Greatness Lyrics Myself
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
I was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
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Divorce Freedom Marriage Myself
I don’t remember feeling love.
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Feeling Love Myself Remember
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
I never felt like I had a mother.
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Feeling Mom Myself
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
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 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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