My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
QUINCY JONESAll guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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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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Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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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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I chose the trombone because the trombone players in the marching band got to be up front with the majorettes (because of the slides) and I loved that!
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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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It’s amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don’t have anything else to do.
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A lot of the guys were like that – Oscar Pettiford – they just took me under their wing, and that’s why I automatically help young people. I just love it, because they did that for me.
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Whenever a woman would come too close, I would cut her off. Part of that was vindictive – but that was totally subconscious.
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I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.
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I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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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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Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that’s the bottom line.
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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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I was the most subtle person in the world.
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Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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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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I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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I was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
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I’ve always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, “Ain’t that the truth.”
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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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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That’s the soul of a country.
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