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A person’s age can be determined by the degree of pain he experiences when he comes in contact with a new idea.

Quincy Jones

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.
QUINCY JONES

Learning Listening Reality Talk Yourself
Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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Act Excellence Habit Myself
Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
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Acceptance Confidence Myself Worth Yourself
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
Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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Game Play Profit
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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Movie Music Rhythm
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’ve always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, “Ain’t that the truth.”
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Laughter Loud Myself Truth
All the jazz guys had interracial relationships, and even the ladies did. Over the years, interracial relationships have been a hip, almost defiant thing, a way of saying “Nobody can put a boundary around me.”
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Boundary Limitation Love Myself Relationship Time
I look back and say, “This must have been somebody else.” I am not going to tell you that when I was 4, I dreamed about all of this.
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Age Dreams Myself Past Time View
I was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
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Divorce Freedom Marriage Myself
You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
QUINCY JONES

God Harmony Melody Music Study Yourself
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Architecture Frozen Music
I don’t remember feeling love.
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Feeling Love Myself Remember
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.
QUINCY JONES

Children Come Music Upset
Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
QUINCY JONES

People Travel Young Yourself

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