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My son is a hip-hop producer.
I don't remember feeling love.
I never felt like I had a mother.
Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.
Excellence isn't an act, it's a habit
I've met every freak in the business.
The process is the most beautiful part.
The only music I don't like is bad music.
I was the most subtle person in the world.
I'm just a musician and a record producer.
I was married for 36 years but now I'm free.
I don't ever want to grow up. That's boring.
You have to know that your real home is within.
I'd been in love before - I was always in love.
They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
I believe in astrology as much as I do in genetics.
You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.
If I don't have a mother, I'll let music be my mother.
When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.
The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
When you're over the hill, that's when you pick up speed.
A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
I like all music. The only music I don't like is bad music.
I'm a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.
You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff
You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush
Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
Editing while you're writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
Prince.. a true artist in every sense of the world.Gone way too soon.
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
Young people should travel, and they don't. You can't know if you don't go.
I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.
When I was 14, I would sit up in my room and write till my eyes would bleed.
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.
Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
I hope that on my tombstone it says 'Born 1933, died 2043.' I hope that's my legacy.
All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
Let's not get too full of ourselves. Let's leave space for God to come into the room.
It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.
I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.
I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.
I travel like a maniac. I travel more than anyone I know. I love learning the languages.
I'm Pisces with Leo rising. The Pisces part is the dreamer. The Leo says, 'Let's execute.'
My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.