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Quincy Jones

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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Choice Love Myself Player
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
My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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Early Memories Myself
Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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Children Writing Yourself
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
They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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Blind Dog Finding Food
I was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
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Divorce Freedom Marriage Myself
Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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Paint Record School
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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Economics Money Myself Racism
I never felt like I had a mother.
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Feeling Mom Myself
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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Boundary Limitation Love Myself Relationship Time
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
My son is a hip-hop producer.
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Job Myself Production Son
China’s got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain’t right.
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People Right Unfair Yourself
Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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Artist Death True World
Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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Arrangement Myself Writing

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