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

Quincy Jones

I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you’re supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.
QUINCY JONES

Learning Listening Reality Talk Yourself
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
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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Age Degree Determination Himself Ideas Person
Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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Act Excellence Habit Myself
My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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Early Memories Myself
You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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Afraid Yourself
My grandmother had this high-tech security system – a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
QUINCY JONES

Door Lock Mom Problem Security System
Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.
QUINCY JONES

Age End Myself Practice Time
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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Movie Music Rhythm
I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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Believe Flow Greatness Lyrics Myself
I don’t remember feeling love.
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Feeling Love Myself Remember
I never felt like I had a mother.
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Feeling Mom Myself
China’s got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain’t right.
QUINCY JONES

People Right Unfair Yourself
Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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Arrangement Myself Writing
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
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!
QUINCY JONES

Greatness Singer Sound Yourself

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

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