I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
QUINCY JONESPrince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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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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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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I never felt like I had a mother.
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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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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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Every day you must be able to say, I have to get up because I’m needed by someone. As long as you have that, you’re healthy.
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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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The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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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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Let’s not get too full of ourselves. Let’s leave space for God to come into the room.
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The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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The process is the most beautiful part.
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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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I’ve met every freak in the business.
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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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Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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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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Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.
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Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
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If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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My dream is to put together a performance of the evolution of black music with Cirque du Soleil . I would also like to do street opera and children’s books. But even as I work toward these things, I want to simplify my life.
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You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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