The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
QUINCY JONESYoung people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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I improvised my life along the way – I just moved step-by-step. And I knew that if I got better, something would happen.
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All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
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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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Let’s not get too full of ourselves. Let’s leave space for God to come into the room.
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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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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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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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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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The relationship with a producer and an artist is really special. It’s got to be love and respect, amazing mutual respect for each other, because that’s what makes a good record.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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I look back and say, “This must have been somebody else.” I am not going to tell you that when I was 4, I dreamed about all of this.
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You have to know that your real home is within.
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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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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.
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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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Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
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Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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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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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’ve met every freak in the business.
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I’m a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.
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My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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