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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.

Quincy Jones

Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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Game Play Profit
I never felt like I had a mother.
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Feeling Mom Myself
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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Age Dreams Myself Past Time View
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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Ground Industry Myself Place
I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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Believe Flow Greatness Lyrics Myself
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Architecture Frozen Music
My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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Early Memories Myself
Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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Arrangement Myself Writing
You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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God Goodness Learning Mistake
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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Age Degree Determination Himself Ideas Person
I’m a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.
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Believe Music Myself Support
Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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Children Writing Yourself
You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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Afraid 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
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
A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that’s the bottom line.
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Bad Myself Save Sing Song

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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