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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 amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don’t have anything else to do.
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Trouble Yourself
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
When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
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Deep Fall Place Speed Yourself
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.
QUINCY JONES

Children Come Music Upset
I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you’re supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.
QUINCY JONES

Learning Listening Reality Talk Yourself
My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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Early Memories Myself
I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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Music Player Record
You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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God Goodness Learning Mistake
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
They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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Blind Dog Finding Food
A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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Beautiful Color Rose Song
You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
QUINCY JONES

God Harmony Melody Music Study Yourself
I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
QUINCY JONES

Economics Money Myself Racism
Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
QUINCY JONES

Game Play Profit
Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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Act Excellence Habit Myself
I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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Believe Flow Greatness Lyrics Myself

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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