You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
QUINCY JONESMy 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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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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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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Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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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’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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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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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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I was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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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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