All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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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Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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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 was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
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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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I don’t remember feeling love.
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My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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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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I never felt like I had a mother.
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Whenever a woman would come too close, I would cut her off. Part of that was vindictive – but that was totally subconscious.
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I’m a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.
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I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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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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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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Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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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.
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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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I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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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 started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
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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.
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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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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 have to know that your real home is within.
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I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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