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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.

Quincy Jones

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.
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Harmony Himself Imagination Old Person Young
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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Class Easy Music Reminder Theory Yourself
I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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Believe Flow Greatness Lyrics Myself
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
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Architecture Frozen Music
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
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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Attitude Darkness Fear Life Light Love Man
Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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Art Emotional Important Military Yourself
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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Movie Music Rhythm
Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
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Acceptance Confidence Myself Worth Yourself
I’ve met every freak in the business.
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Business Freak Myself
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
They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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Blind Dog Finding Food
The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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Act Arrangement Record
I never felt like I had a mother.
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Feeling Mom Myself
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

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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