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 JONESI’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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I look back and say, “This must have been somebody else.” I am not going to tell you that when I was 4, I dreamed about all of this.
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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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You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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The relationship with a producer and an artist is really special. It’s got to be love and respect, amazing mutual respect for each other, because that’s what makes a good record.
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I was the most subtle person in the world.
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I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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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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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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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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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that’s the bottom line.
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The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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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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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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It’s amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don’t have anything else to do.
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