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I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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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!
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All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
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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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China's got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain't right.
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I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.
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Frank Sinatra took me to a whole new planet. I worked with him until he passed away in '98. He left me his ring. I never take it off. Now, when I go to Sicily, I don't need a passport. I just flash my ring.
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Sidney Poitier and Sidney Lumet were instrumental in helping me get started as the first black composer to get name credit for movie scores.
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Everybody, no matter what vocation they're looking at, should add music as an essential to their curriculum. Music can be a very important part of your soul and your growth as a human being. It's so powerful.
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When you work with Ray Charles, Billy Eckstine and Frank Sinatra, and you tell them to jump without a net, you better know what you're talking about. Thank God I was ready for it.
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I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.
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Melody is king, and don't you ever forget it. Lyrics appear to be out front, but they're not; they're just an accompanying factor. If they're good, you're really in good shape. Lyrics are written to be rewritten.
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I think the attraction of 'American Idol' is about the basic human nature attitude that is, 'We can put you up there. But we can take you down.'
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I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.
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After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, trombone, trumpet, most of the instruments in the orchestra. Trumpet was my instrument.
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I hope that on my tombstone it says 'Born 1933, died 2043.' I hope that's my legacy.
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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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Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk of 'the dozens.'
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I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
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I believe that a hundred years from now, when people look back at the 20th century, they will look at Miles, Bird, Clifford Brown, Ella and Dizzy, among elders as our Mozarts, our Chopins, our Bachs and Beethovens.
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When I was 14, I would sit up in my room and write till my eyes would bleed.
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I travel like a maniac. I travel more than anyone I know. I love learning the languages.
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I never cared about money or fame, and I don't care now. I follow the groove, and money always follows.
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When you produce an album, you're dealing with it theatrically. It has to have a structure, and the inner response to that is that the ear loves it.
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I tell my kids and I tell proteges, always have humility when you create and grace when you succeed, because it's not about you. You are a terminal for a higher power. As soon as you accept that, you can do it forever.
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Seattle is like a global gumbo, a melting pot with all kinds of people - the rich, the poor, white people, some Chinese, Filipino, Jewish and black people - they're all here.
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I lost my mother when I was 7 and they put her in a mental hospital. My brother and I watched her being taken away in a strait jacket. That's something you never forget. And my stepmother was like in the movie 'Precious.' I couldn't handle it. So I said to myself, 'I don't have a mother. I don't need one. I'm going to let music be my mother.'
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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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