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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.

Quincy Jones

Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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Game Play Profit
I don’t remember feeling love.
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Feeling Love Myself Remember
Every day you must be able to say, I have to get up because I’m needed by someone. As long as you have that, you’re healthy.
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Day Health Need Talk Yourself
If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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Mom Music Myself
Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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Arrangement Myself Writing
Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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Artist Death True World
My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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Early Memories Myself
I never felt like I had a mother.
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Feeling Mom Myself
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
My son is a hip-hop producer.
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Job Myself Production Son
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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Father Hard Work Institution Mental Ourselves
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
I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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Heart Love Myself
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
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
I don’t deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn’t deserve that, either. So I’ll keep it.
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Award Brain Deserve Fame Myself Operation

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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