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Let’s not get too full of ourselves. Let’s leave space for God to come into the room.

Quincy Jones

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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Break Mistake Preparation Time Yourself
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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Movie Music Rhythm
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
The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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Act Arrangement Record
Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.
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Age End Myself Practice Time
You have to know that your real home is within.
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Home Reality Spiritual Yourself
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
All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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Love Music Relationship Woman
Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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Children Writing 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
Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to come along and upset everybody.
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Children Come Music Upset
I was the most subtle person in the world.
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Myself Person World
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
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Architecture Frozen Music
Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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Paint Record School
After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it’s worse than ever.
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Change Music Thinking Understand War Worst Yourself

Let’s not get too full of ourselves. Let’s leave space for God to come into the room.

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