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.
Interpretation
Embracing mistakes and heartbreaks leads to personal growth and enrichment.
Quincy Jones emphasizes the importance of valuing our mistakes and life's challenges, such as heartbreaks, as essential experiences that contribute to our growth and understanding. By cherishing these moments, rather than simply enduring them, we can avoid repetition of the same errors and become wiser individuals, gathering valuable life lessons along the way.
In practice
In a motivational speech about resilience and learning from failures.
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 that to have known one good, old man-one man, who, through the chances and mischances of a long life, has carried his heart in his hand, like a palm-branch, waving all discords into peace-helps our faith in God, in ourselves, and in each other more than many sermons
True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.
One doesn't stay in a state of nirvana by hiding from difficulties. You stay in nirvana by lavishing nirvana on everyone you meet, by giving it away as fast as you receive it.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
Saying is one thing and doing is another; we are to consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.
Next, feel your heart, literally placing your hand on your chest if you find that helpful. This is a way of accepting yourself just as you are in that moment, a way of saying, "This is my experience right now, and it's okay." Then go into the next moment without any agenda.
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