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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

The relationship with a producer and an artist is really special. It’s got to be love and respect, amazing mutual respect for each other, because that’s what makes a good record.
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Artist Goodness Love Production Relationship Respect
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
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
A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer – you put a great song on top of that, you’re really in great shape!
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Greatness Singer Sound 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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Ground Industry Myself Place
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
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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Class Easy Music Reminder Theory Yourself
The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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Act Arrangement Record
Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.
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Children Criticism Greatness Love Mindset Peace Yourself
Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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Children Writing Yourself
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Architecture Frozen Music
I improvised my life along the way – I just moved step-by-step. And I knew that if I got better, something would happen.
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Better Life Move Myself Way
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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Movie Music Rhythm
My dream is to put together a performance of the evolution of black music with Cirque du Soleil . I would also like to do street opera and children’s books. But even as I work toward these things, I want to simplify my life.
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Book Children Dreams Music Myself Performance Simplicity Togetherness
I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you’re supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.
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Learning Listening Reality Talk 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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