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My grandmother had this high-tech security system – a rusty nail she used to lock the door.

Quincy Jones

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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Class Easy Music Reminder Theory Yourself
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
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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Father Hard Work Institution Mental Ourselves
You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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Afraid Yourself
Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
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Acceptance Confidence Myself Worth Yourself
Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That’s the soul of a country.
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Country Food Language Music Soul
They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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Blind Dog Finding Food
I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
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Economics Money Myself Racism
I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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Believe Flow Greatness Lyrics Myself
Every day you must be able to say, I have to get up because I’m needed by someone. As long as you have that, you’re healthy.
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Day Health Need Talk Yourself
Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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Act Excellence Habit Myself
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
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
I was the most subtle person in the world.
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Myself Person World
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Architecture Frozen Music
Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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Arrangement Myself Writing

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