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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

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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Choice Love Myself Player
The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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Act Arrangement Record
I’m a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.
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Believe Music Myself Support
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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Break Mistake Preparation Time Yourself
Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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Artist Death True World
I was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
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Divorce Freedom Marriage Myself
I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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Music Player Record
You have to know that your real home is within.
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Home Reality Spiritual Yourself
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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Better Life Move Myself Way
Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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Art Emotional Important Military Yourself
Let’s not get too full of ourselves. Let’s leave space for God to come into the room.
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God Leaving Ourselves Religious Room Space
All the jazz guys had interracial relationships, and even the ladies did. Over the years, interracial relationships have been a hip, almost defiant thing, a way of saying “Nobody can put a boundary around me.”
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Boundary Limitation Love Myself Relationship Time
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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Myself See Steal Thinking Time Touch
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
I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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Heart Love Myself
Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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Act Excellence Habit Myself
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
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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People Right Unfair Yourself
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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Economics Money Myself Racism
When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
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Deep Fall Place Speed Yourself
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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Love Myself People Wings
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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Movie Music Rhythm
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
Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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Children Writing Yourself
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
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
Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.
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Harmony Himself Imagination Old Person Young

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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