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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.

Quincy Jones

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.
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Father Hard Work Institution Mental Ourselves
My grandmother had this high-tech security system – a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
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Door Lock Mom Problem Security System
If 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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Big Deal Experience Start World Yourself
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Architecture Frozen Music
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
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
Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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Act Excellence Habit 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
You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
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God Harmony Melody Music Study Yourself
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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Laughter Loud Myself Truth
Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
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Acceptance Confidence Myself Worth Yourself
Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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Artist Death True World
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
Did you know you would become as successful as you have? Hell, no. But you know what? You were prepared, baby.
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Inspirational Preparation Success Yourself
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

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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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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