Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
QUINCY JONESIf 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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A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that’s the bottom line.
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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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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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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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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 learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you’re supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.
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I was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
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All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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You have to know that your real home is within.
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I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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I chose the trombone because the trombone players in the marching band got to be up front with the majorettes (because of the slides) and I loved that!
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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That’s the soul of a country.
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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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When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
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