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 JONESEvery 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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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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A lot of the guys were like that – Oscar Pettiford – they just took me under their wing, and that’s why I automatically help young people. I just love it, because they did that for me.
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The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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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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You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
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I’ve met every freak in the business.
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You have to know that your real home is within.
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Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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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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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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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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It’s amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don’t have anything else to do.
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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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A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that’s the bottom line.
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Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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