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Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.

The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.

I'm not a psychiatrist.

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

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!

My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.

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.

I like all music. The only music I don't like is bad music.

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

Quincy Jones