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.
QUINCY JONESI 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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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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All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
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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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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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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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Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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I don’t remember feeling love.
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You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
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I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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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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I’m a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.
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Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. ‘Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it’s done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.’
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Let’s not get too full of ourselves. Let’s leave space for God to come into the room.
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Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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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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I chose the trombone because the trombone players in the marching band got to be up front with the majorettes (because of the slides) and I loved that!
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Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
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The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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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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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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I was the most subtle person in the world.
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You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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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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