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Quincy Jones

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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Hope Imagination Myself Society Start
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
Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.
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Children Criticism Greatness Love Mindset Peace Yourself
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
A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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Beautiful Color Rose Song
It’s amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don’t have anything else to do.
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Trouble Yourself
The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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Act Arrangement Record
You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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Afraid Yourself
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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Movie Music Rhythm
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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Award Brain Deserve Fame Myself Operation
My dream is to put together a performance of the evolution of black music with Cirque du Soleil . I would also like to do street opera and children’s books. But even as I work toward these things, I want to simplify my life.
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Book Children Dreams Music Myself Performance Simplicity Togetherness
Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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Children Writing Yourself
I never felt like I had a mother.
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Feeling Mom Myself
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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Attitude Darkness Fear Life Light Love Man
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
Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
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People Travel Young Yourself

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