My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
QUINCY JONESI’m just a musician and a record producer.
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Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
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Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.
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Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
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The process is the most beautiful part.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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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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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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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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If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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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 person’s age can be determined by the degree of pain he experiences when he comes in contact with a new idea.
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They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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My grandmother had this high-tech security system – a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
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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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