When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.
QUINCY JONESThey say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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I was the most subtle person in the world.
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I look back and say, “This must have been somebody else.” I am not going to tell you that when I was 4, I dreamed about all of this.
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Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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I don’t remember feeling love.
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I’ve met every freak in the business.
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Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.
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Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to come along and upset everybody.
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I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
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I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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The process is the most beautiful part.
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The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that’s the bottom line.
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I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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Whenever a woman would come too close, I would cut her off. Part of that was vindictive – but that was totally subconscious.
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