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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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" 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. "

" When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out. "

" It's easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play. "

" I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe. "

" I don't remember feeling love. "

" 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 was married for 36 years but now I'm free. "

" I live on the Internet. "

" 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? "

" I'm just a musician and a record producer. "

" I was the most subtle person in the world. "

" I never felt like I had a mother. "

" I'm not a psychiatrist. "

" 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.' "

" I've never been bored in my life, man. I've never been bored or lonely. Are you kidding? No way! I'm an orchestrator, a musician, a producer. I love everything. I've studied languages from Farsi to Greek to French, Swedish, Russian... How can you get bored? "

" Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable. "

" I've met every freak in the business. "

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

" Cherish your mistakes, and you won't keep making them over and over again. It's the same with heartbreaks and girls and everything else. Cherish them, and they'll put some wealth in you. "

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

" 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. "

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

" We spent most of our life almost like street rats just running around the street until we were ten years old. "

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

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

" When I was 14, I would sit up in my room and write till my eyes would bleed. "

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" I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know. "