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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 never felt like I had a mother.
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Feeling Mom Myself
I’m a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.
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Believe Music Myself Support
Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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Paint Record School
I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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Music Player Record
My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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Early Memories 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 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
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
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
I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.
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Ground Industry Myself Place
Let’s not get too full of ourselves. Let’s leave space for God to come into the room.
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God Leaving Ourselves Religious Room Space
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Architecture Frozen Music
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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Movie Music Rhythm
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
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
The process is the most beautiful part.
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Beautiful Part Process

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