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" I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the machine; the machine works for you.' "

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" We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother. "

" I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day. "

" I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is. "

" We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don't think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again. "

" To me it's no accident that all the symphony orchestras around the world tune up to the note A. And A is 440 cycles, except in Germany where it's 444. But the universe is 450 cycles. So what I'm trying to say is, I think it's God's voice, melody especially. Counterpoint, retrograde inversion, harmony... that's the science and the craft. "

" I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to know about everything. "

" Just blow in it and sound bad for about a year and then make it sound a little bit better, and you get a little band together, and then you get a few jobs. You take four guys that sound half bad, but if they're 25 percent each, they can give 100 percent, you know? "

" Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing. "

" Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release. "

" Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" I'd been in love before - I was always in love. "

" 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. "

" I'm probably the only one in the world you can name that's worked with Billie Holiday, Louie Armstrong, Ella, Duke, Miles, Dizzy, Ray Charles, Aretha, Michael Jackson, rappers. 'Fly Me to the Moon' was played on the moon by Buzz Aldrin. Sinatra. Paul Simon. Tony Bennett. I'm the only one. "

" I don't ever want to grow up. That's boring. "

" Everybody has their idiosyncrasies. "

" My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren't related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store. "

" I believe in astrology as much as I do in genetics. "

" You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F. "

" I never cared about money or fame, and I don't care now. I follow the groove, and money always follows. "

" The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious. "

" I don't remember feeling love. "

" I'm not a psychiatrist. "

" If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture. "

" You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff. "

" I like all music. The only music I don't like is bad music. "

" I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from. "

" I'm Pisces with Leo rising. The Pisces part is the dreamer. The Leo says, 'Let's execute.' "

" All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls. "