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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!

Quincy Jones

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.
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Learning Listening Reality Talk Yourself
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
I was the most subtle person in the world.
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Myself Person World
The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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Act Arrangement Record
You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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God Goodness Learning Mistake
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
We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don’t think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.
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Myself See Steal Thinking Time Touch
Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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Game Play Profit
A lot of the guys were like that – Oscar Pettiford – they just took me under their wing, and that’s why I automatically help young people. I just love it, because they did that for me.
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Love Myself People Wings
I’m never in my life going to do a record that’s a tribute to myself. I don’t need it.
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Life Myself Need Record Tribute
I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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Heart Love Myself
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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Movie Music Rhythm
I don’t remember feeling love.
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Feeling Love Myself Remember
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
Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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Arrangement Myself Writing
My son is a hip-hop producer.
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Job Myself Production Son

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