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" After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it's worse than ever. "
Home
Think
War
" After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, trombone, trumpet, most of the instruments in the orchestra. Trumpet was my instrument. "
Piano
Most
Learn
" A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape! "
Song
Top
Good
" All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls. "
Love
Guys
Want
" Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important. "
You
Military
Arts
" 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. "
Me
Youth
You
" 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. "
You
Cherish
Mistakes
" China's got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain't right. "
Over
People
Right
" Everybody has their idiosyncrasies. "
Everybody
Idiosyncrasies
" 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. "
Looking
Powerful
Soul
" Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country. "
Language
Music
Soul
" Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.' "
Small
Great
Every Day
" Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk of 'the dozens.' "
Realize
Trash
Talk
" Frank Sinatra took me to a whole new planet. I worked with him until he passed away in '98. He left me his ring. I never take it off. Now, when I go to Sicily, I don't need a passport. I just flash my ring. "
Ring
Now
Need
" I believe in astrology as much as I do in genetics. "
Believe
Astrology
I Believe
" I believe that a hundred years from now, when people look back at the 20th century, they will look at Miles, Bird, Clifford Brown, Ella and Dizzy, among elders as our Mozarts, our Chopins, our Bachs and Beethovens. "
Look
People
Believe
" I'd been in love before - I was always in love. "
Always
Love
Been
" I didn't understand key signatures or anything, you know. I'd say silly things at the top of a trumpet part like, 'Note, when you play B naturals, make the B naturals a half step lower because they sound funny if they're B naturals.' And some guy said: 'Idiot, just put a flat on the third line and it's a key signature, you know?' "
Step
You
Play
" I don't ever want to grow up. That's boring. "
Ever
Up
Want
" I don't remember feeling love. "
Feeling
Remember
Love
" If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture. "
Frozen
Then
Must
" I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is. "
Years
Over
Racism
" If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You're dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle. "
Experience
You
World
" 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. "
Away
Writing
Seattle
" I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins. "
Everything
Band
Forever
" 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. "
Black
Time
Music
" 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.' "
Son
Work
Tools
" I hope that on my tombstone it says 'Born 1933, died 2043.' I hope that's my legacy. "
Says
Hope
Born
" I like all music. The only music I don't like is bad music. "
Like
Bad
Music
" I live on the Internet. "
Internet
Live
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