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I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.

Quincy Jones

Let’s not get too full of ourselves. Let’s leave space for God to come into the room.
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God Leaving Ourselves Religious Room Space
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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Greatness Singer Sound Yourself
Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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Act Excellence Habit Myself
A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that’s the bottom line.
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Bad Myself Save Sing Song
Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to come along and upset everybody.
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Children Come Music Upset
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
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 just a musician and a record producer.
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Music Player 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
If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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Mom Music Myself
Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That’s the soul of a country.
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Country Food Language Music Soul
Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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Children Writing Yourself
Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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Game Play Profit
The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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Act Arrangement Record
Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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Arrangement Myself Writing
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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Choice Love Myself Player

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