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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

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 was the most subtle person in the world.
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Myself Person World
You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
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God Harmony Melody Music Study Yourself
Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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Children Writing Yourself
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Architecture Frozen Music
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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Big Deal Experience Start World Yourself
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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Movie Music Rhythm
I look back and say, “This must have been somebody else.” I am not going to tell you that when I was 4, I dreamed about all of this.
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Age Dreams Myself Past Time View
Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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Act Excellence Habit Myself
I’m a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.
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Believe Music Myself Support
Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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Artist Death True World
I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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Heart Love Myself
The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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Act Arrangement Record
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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Consciousness Myself Woman
A person’s age can be determined by the degree of pain he experiences when he comes in contact with a new idea.
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Age Degree Determination Himself Ideas Person
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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