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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’ve met every freak in the business.
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Business Freak Myself
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
A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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Beautiful Color Rose Song
I was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
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Divorce Freedom Marriage Myself
I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
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Hope Imagination Myself Society Start
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
Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. ‘Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it’s done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.’
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Beginning Day Father Greatness Myself Small
Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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Paint Record School
Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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Artist Death True World
I never felt like I had a mother.
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Feeling Mom Myself
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
It’s the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear.
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Attitude Darkness Fear Life Light Love Man
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Architecture Frozen Music
My dream is to put together a performance of the evolution of black music with Cirque du Soleil . I would also like to do street opera and children’s books. But even as I work toward these things, I want to simplify my life.
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Book Children Dreams Music Myself Performance Simplicity Togetherness
I’ve always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, “Ain’t that the truth.”
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Laughter Loud Myself Truth
Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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Children Writing Yourself

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