I was the most subtle person in the world.
QUINCY JONESThe act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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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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Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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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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The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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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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Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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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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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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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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I was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
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A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that’s the bottom line.
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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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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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When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
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