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Quincy Jones

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
Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That’s the soul of a country.
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Country Food Language Music Soul
I don’t remember feeling love.
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Feeling Love Myself Remember
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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Movie Music Rhythm
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Architecture Frozen Music
I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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Music Player Record
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
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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Age End Myself Practice Time
I never felt like I had a mother.
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Feeling Mom Myself
If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You’re dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle.
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Big Deal Experience Start World Yourself
My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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Early Memories Myself
Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.
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Children Criticism Greatness Love Mindset Peace Yourself
Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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Game Play Profit
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
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
All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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Love Music Relationship Woman

The process is the most beautiful part.

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