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Some people will never know how close they really were to success because they threw in the towel right before their big break. — Dawn Gluskin

You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God. — Quincy Jones

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. — Quincy Jones

I have never had the desire, need, nor the inclination to ever be the one to make the one I love cry."

~R. Alan Woods [2013] — R. Alan Woods

You read widely to be shaped, not so that you might be prepared to regurgitate. — Douglas Wilson

If I don't have a mother, I'll let music be my mother. — Quincy Jones

The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got. — Will Rogers

Be a light unto yourself; betake yourselves to no external refuge. Hold fast to the Truth. Look not for refuge to anyone besides yourselves. — Buddha Shakyamuni

If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture. — Quincy Jones

Positive human action is not only possible, but pervasive; human beings can improve and choose light and so on. And this is all happening. — George Saunders

All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls. — Quincy Jones

I think how the world is still somehow beautiful even when I feel no joy at being alive within it. — Loung Ung

To say that it is without pace, point, focus, interest, drama, wit or originality is to say simply that it does not happen to be my cup of tea. — Tom Stoppard

Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to come along and upset everybody. — Quincy Jones

Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release. — Quincy Jones

I simply felt alone, one leaf sitting miles away from a giant, communal pile. — Dan Wells

Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country. — Quincy Jones

In the absence of direction, claim and expand the freedom to act as you will. — Seth Dickinson

Teens are by nature, experimental learners. There is no real understanding of biology without the lab ... — Wendy Mogel

I understand culture. I am the nucleus. — Kanye West

Those are Klingon and Federation ships," I said. "You're a nerd, Shelton, but, holy crap, do I love this. — John Corwin

The rich are only defeated when running for their lives. — C.L.R. James

I like all music. The only music I don't like is bad music. — Quincy Jones