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Quincy Jones
"You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God."
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Source : "Grammy Legend Award". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 28, 2000.
Quincy Jones
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“If I have committed any culinary atrocities, please forgive me.”
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“If you have butterflies in your stomach ask them into your heart.”
Source : Cooper Edens (2007). “If You're Afraid of the Dark, Remember the Night Rainbow/Add One More Star to the Night”, p.53, Chronicle Books
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“Every man is a hero of his own story.”
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“Where's the use of looking nice, when no one sees me but those cross midgets, and no one cares whether I'm pretty or not?”
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“Social climbing and power climbing -- the two are often synonymous -- are what make Washington run. ... If there are more than two people together, if there are three, one of them is climbing.”
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“I understand the Second Amendment. I support it. People have the right to bear arms.”
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“As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy.”
Source : Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (2011). “Property is Theft!: A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology”, p.133, AK Press
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“People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.”