You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
QUINCY JONESMy earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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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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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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I was the most subtle person in the world.
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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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I never felt like I had a mother.
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Whenever a woman would come too close, I would cut her off. Part of that was vindictive – but that was totally subconscious.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.
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If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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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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A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer – you put a great song on top of that, you’re really in great shape!
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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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The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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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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I was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
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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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Did you know you would become as successful as you have? Hell, no. But you know what? You were prepared, baby.
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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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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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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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Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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It’s easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.
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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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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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You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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