It's the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear.
Interpretation
Life's perspective can shape our experiences; focusing on positivity and love leads to a more fulfilling life.
Quincy Jones emphasizes that our attitudes profoundly affect our life experiences. By choosing to focus on positivity, love, and light rather than negativity and fear, we can cultivate a happier and more meaningful existence, highlighting the importance of mindset in shaping our reality.
In practice
During a motivational speech, one might say, 'Remember, it's the attitude about life that matters; we must look at the light instead of the dark.'
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.
To work for libertarianism - to oppose the growth of government and aid the liberation of the individual - used to be an idealistic choice taken for purely idealistic reasons. Now it is an act of intelligent and almost desperate self-defense.
Had the news of salvation by Jesus Christ been inscribed on the face of the sun and the moon, in characters that all nations would have understood, the whole earth had known it in twenty-four hours, and all nations would have believed it; whereas, though it is now almost two thousand years since, as they tell us, Christ came upon earth, not a twentieth part of the people of the earth know anything of it, and among those who do, the wiser part do not believe it.
See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome.
The Great Spirit Chief who rules above all will smile upon this land... and this time the Indian race is waiting and praying.
You have to help another person. But it's not right to play God with masses of people. To be God you have to know what you're doing. And to do any good at all, just believing you're right and your motives are good isn't enough.
The world of the 20th century, if it is to come to life in any viability of health and vigor, must be to a significant degree an American century.
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