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

Quincy Jones

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
My son is a hip-hop producer.
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Job Myself Production Son
Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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Arrangement Myself Writing
Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.
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Children Criticism Greatness Love Mindset Peace Yourself
You have to know that your real home is within.
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Home Reality Spiritual Yourself
If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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Mom Music Myself
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 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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Hope Imagination Myself Society Start
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’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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Heart Love Myself
They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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Blind Dog Finding Food
Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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Children Writing Yourself
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
I’m a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.
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Believe Music Myself Support
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
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

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