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

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

" We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too. "

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" I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music - gospel, blues, jazz and R&B - is the heart and soul of all popular music; and that we cannot afford to let this legacy slip into obscurity, I'm telling you. "

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

" Everybody has their idiosyncrasies. "

" I live on the Internet. "

" It slaps your dignity just right. I loved the idea of these proud, dignified black men, and I saw the older ones wounded, and it wounded me ten times as much because I couldn't stand seeing them hurt like this. "

" Working with kids in Soweto in South Africa, it's rough out there. But the bottom line is you've got to go to know. In Cambodia, there are 10,000 landmines. Same in Afghanistan, same in Colombia. I'm totally addicted to traveling. "

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

" I'm a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap. "

" China's got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain't right. "

" 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? "

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

" I'm not a psychiatrist. "

" I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home. "

" 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. "

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

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

" It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do. "

" I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it. "

" Bebop and hip-hop, in so many ways, they're connected. A lot of rappers remind me so much of bebop guys in terms of improvisation, beats and rhymes. My dream is to see hip-hop incorporated in education. You've got the youth of the world in the palm of your hand. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Sidney Poitier and Sidney Lumet were instrumental in helping me get started as the first black composer to get name credit for movie scores. "

" I lost my mother when I was 7 and they put her in a mental hospital. My brother and I watched her being taken away in a strait jacket. That's something you never forget. And my stepmother was like in the movie 'Precious.' I couldn't handle it. So I said to myself, 'I don't have a mother. I don't need one. I'm going to let music be my mother.' "

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

" Melody is king, and don't you ever forget it. Lyrics appear to be out front, but they're not; they're just an accompanying factor. If they're good, you're really in good shape. Lyrics are written to be rewritten. "