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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.

Quincy Jones

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
I’m a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.
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Believe Music Myself Support
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Architecture Frozen Music
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
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
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
Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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Children Writing Yourself
I’ve met every freak in the business.
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Business Freak Myself
Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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Artist Death True World
I don’t remember feeling love.
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Feeling Love Myself Remember
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
They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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Blind Dog Finding Food
I never felt like I had a mother.
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Feeling Mom 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
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
A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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Beautiful Color Rose Song

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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