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.
Interpretation
Experience in a smaller scene can be more valuable than competing in a bigger one.
Quincy Jones highlights the importance of local experience and growth, suggesting that working in a smaller, less competitive environment like Seattle provided valuable lessons that are often overshadowed by the grandeur of major cities like New York, where the pressure and competition from influential figures can be overwhelming.
In practice
In a music workshop discussing career paths, one might say, 'As Quincy Jones pointed out, experience in Seattle can be just as valuable as competing in New York.'
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?
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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.
You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
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 tell my kids and I tell proteges, always have humility when you create and grace when you succeed, because it's not about you. You are a terminal for a higher power. As soon as you accept that, you can do it forever.
I think they saw me as something like a deliverer, a way out. My means of expression, my music, was a way in which a lot of people wished they could express themselves and couldn't.
When you hear the music ringin' in your soul_x000D_ And you feel it in your heart and it grows and grows_x000D_ And it comes from the backstreet rock & roll and the healing has begun...
If You can play Your stuff in a pub, then You´re a good band.
At the point we finished 'Abbey Road,' the game was up. We all accepted that.
I don't make Christian rap, but I am a Christian rapper.
I'm from Kenner, Louisiana, where music is played for every occasion in life. There's music for being born, there's music for dying... It's just natural. Families get really good because they play a lot together.
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