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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

Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
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People Travel Young Yourself
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Architecture Frozen Music
Did you know you would become as successful as you have? Hell, no. But you know what? You were prepared, baby.
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Inspirational Preparation Success 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
I’ve met every freak in the business.
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Business Freak Myself
My grandmother had this high-tech security system – a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
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Door Lock Mom Problem Security System
Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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Paint Record School
A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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Beautiful Color Rose Song
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
Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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Game Play Profit
I was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
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Divorce Freedom Marriage 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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Age End Myself Practice Time
Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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Children Writing Yourself
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
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

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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