I’m a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.
QUINCY JONESPlaying the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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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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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.
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A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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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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The process is the most beautiful part.
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I’ve always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, “Ain’t that the truth.”
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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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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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I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
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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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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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It’s easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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