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Quincy Jones

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
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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Movie Music Rhythm
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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Break Mistake Preparation Time Yourself
You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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Afraid Yourself
I don’t deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn’t deserve that, either. So I’ll keep it.
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Award Brain Deserve Fame Myself Operation
If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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Mom Music Myself
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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Age Degree Determination Himself Ideas Person
The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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Act Arrangement Record
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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Consciousness Myself Woman
I was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
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Divorce Freedom Marriage Myself
I’m never in my life going to do a record that’s a tribute to myself. I don’t need it.
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Life Myself Need Record Tribute
My son is a hip-hop producer.
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Job Myself Production Son
All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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Love Music Relationship Woman
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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Love Myself People Wings
I was the most subtle person in the world.
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Myself Person World
I’ve met every freak in the business.
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Business Freak Myself

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