The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
QUINCY JONESThe only music I don’t like is bad music.
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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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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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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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Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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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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The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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It’s amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don’t have anything else to do.
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Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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All the jazz guys had interracial relationships, and even the ladies did. Over the years, interracial relationships have been a hip, almost defiant thing, a way of saying “Nobody can put a boundary around me.”
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You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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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 don’t remember feeling love.
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You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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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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Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.
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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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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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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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Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
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Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
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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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I’ve met every freak in the business.
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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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I’m a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.
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