Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
QUINCY JONESIt’s the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear.
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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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I was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
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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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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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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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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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The process is the most beautiful part.
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The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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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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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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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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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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Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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I don’t remember feeling love.
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The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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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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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’m a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.
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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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I’ve met every freak in the business.
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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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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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Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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