If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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’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 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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I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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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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I was the most subtle person in the world.
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I look back and say, “This must have been somebody else.” I am not going to tell you that when I was 4, I dreamed about all of this.
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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
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A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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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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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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You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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