I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
Interpretation
Racism often masks deeper economic issues and inequalities.
Quincy Jones suggests that racism is not merely a social or cultural issue, but rather a superficial layer that hides the more profound economic disparities and injustices in society. By highlighting this connection, he calls attention to the need for addressing the economic factors that contribute to and sustain racial discrimination.
In practice
During a social justice seminar discussing the economic aspects of racism.
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.
Man can and does rationalize his sins. He finds reasons for all his weakness, invents excuses that first calm and then deaden his conscience. He blames God, society, education, and environment for his wrong doing.
No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his work at least gives him a secure place in a portion of reality, in the human community.
A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.
Those who live by mystery & charlatanerie, fearing you would render them useless by simplifying the Christian philosophy - the most sublime and benevolent, but most perverted system that ever shone on man - endeavored to crush your well-earned & well-deserved fame.
I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for people.
Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me.
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