Quincy Jones Quotes
Michael (Jackson) was so shy, he'd sit down and sing behind the couch with his back to me while I sat with my hands over my eyes-and the lights off.
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I believe that you can always learn from observation.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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As a kid growing up - I can see now - it didn't matter what I did, as long as it was something I could be really good at. Cycling just happened to be the opportunity that came along.
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My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.
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I will never forget the will of the people who believed in me wherever I went during the election campaign.
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People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.
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I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love.
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I have been running since I was 7. I was trying to restructure the way my body was made instead of trying to master the way I ran. I would get so frustrated with my starts in practices that I would just cry. When I ran, I wouldn't even try to get out of the blocks, I would just run.
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I'm very proud I'm Chinese and represent the Chinese community.
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Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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I want to do good for Israel. My philosophy is let's do good stuff, and let's see what happens. And que sera, sera.
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A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.
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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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An expert is not someone who gives you the answer, it is someone who asks you the right question.
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I do so dearly believe that no half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.
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There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter.
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People are more comfortable learning about wine because now they can just Google, you know, 'Soave,' and say, 'Oh, O.K., cool.'
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Mrs Prentice: Have you taken up transvestism? I'd no idea our marriage teetered on the edge of fashion.
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Michael (Jackson) was so shy, he'd sit down and sing behind the couch with his back to me while I sat with my hands over my eyes-and the lights off.
