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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.

Quincy Jones

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
You have to know that your real home is within.
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Home Reality Spiritual Yourself
Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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Game Play Profit
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 never felt like I had a mother.
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Feeling Mom Myself
Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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Paint Record School
A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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Beautiful Color Rose Song
China’s got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain’t right.
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People Right Unfair Yourself
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
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
I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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Heart Love Myself
I’m a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.
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Believe Music Myself Support
I was the most subtle person in the world.
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Myself Person World
Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
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Acceptance Confidence Myself Worth Yourself
I’ve met every freak in the business.
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Business Freak Myself
My son is a hip-hop producer.
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Job Myself Production Son

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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