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It’s easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.

Quincy Jones

You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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God Goodness Learning Mistake
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
Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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Children Writing Yourself
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
They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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Blind Dog Finding Food
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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Movie Music Rhythm
Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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Arrangement Myself Writing
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
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
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
Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
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Acceptance Confidence Myself Worth Yourself
Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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Artist Death True World
The relationship with a producer and an artist is really special. It’s got to be love and respect, amazing mutual respect for each other, because that’s what makes a good record.
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Artist Goodness Love Production Relationship Respect
Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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Paint Record School
If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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Mom Music Myself
It’s easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.
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Class Easy Music Reminder Theory Yourself
The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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Act Arrangement Record
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
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Architecture Frozen Music
I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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Believe Flow Greatness Lyrics Myself
The process is the most beautiful part.
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Beautiful Part Process
Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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Art Emotional Important Military Yourself
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
The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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Bad Music Myself
I’m a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.
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Believe Music Myself Support
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

It’s easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.

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It’s easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.

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