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You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.

Quincy Jones

I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
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Economics Money Myself Racism
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
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
I improvised my life along the way – I just moved step-by-step. And I knew that if I got better, something would happen.
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Better Life Move Myself Way
Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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Game Play Profit
Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.
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Harmony Himself Imagination Old Person Young
They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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Blind Dog Finding Food
Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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Paint Record School
You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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Afraid Yourself
Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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Artist Death True World
I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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Believe Flow Greatness Lyrics Myself
I don’t deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn’t deserve that, either. So I’ll keep it.
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Award Brain Deserve Fame Myself Operation
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
My son is a hip-hop producer.
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Job Myself Production Son
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

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