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Quincy Jones

When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
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Deep Fall Place Speed Yourself
Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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Children Writing Yourself
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
You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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Afraid Yourself
We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don’t think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.
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Myself See Steal Thinking Time Touch
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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Boundary Limitation Love Myself Relationship Time
The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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Act Arrangement Record
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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Beginning Day Father Greatness Myself Small
I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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Heart Love Myself
Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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Act Excellence Habit Myself
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
You have to know that your real home is within.
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Home Reality Spiritual Yourself
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
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
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

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

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