Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
QUINCY JONESEvery 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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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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You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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It’s the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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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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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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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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My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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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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Let’s not get too full of ourselves. Let’s leave space for God to come into the room.
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The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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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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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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