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.
QUINCY JONESI 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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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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You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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I’ve met every freak in the business.
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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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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. ‘Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it’s done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.’
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Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
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My grandmother had this high-tech security system – a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
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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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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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You have to know that your real home is within.
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