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Quincy Jones

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
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
The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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Act Arrangement Record
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
Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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Artist Death True World
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
You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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Afraid Yourself
I’m never in my life going to do a record that’s a tribute to myself. I don’t need it.
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Life Myself Need Record Tribute
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
The process is the most beautiful part.
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Beautiful Part Process
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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Change Music Thinking Understand War Worst Yourself
I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you’re supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.
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Learning Listening Reality Talk Yourself
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
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
When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
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Deep Fall Place Speed Yourself
My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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Early Memories Myself

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