I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you’re supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.
QUINCY JONESI was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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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 found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
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I’ve met every freak in the business.
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I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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I chose the trombone because the trombone players in the marching band got to be up front with the majorettes (because of the slides) and I loved that!
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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.
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It’s easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.
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My dream is to put together a performance of the evolution of black music with Cirque du Soleil . I would also like to do street opera and children’s books. But even as I work toward these things, I want to simplify my life.
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Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.
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A person’s age can be determined by the degree of pain he experiences when he comes in contact with a new idea.
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Did you know you would become as successful as you have? Hell, no. But you know what? You were prepared, baby.
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What happens when you get a big break and you haven’t prepared yourself? That becomes the biggest mistake you’ve ever made. I see it happen all the time.
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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it’s worse than ever.
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I don’t deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn’t deserve that, either. So I’ll keep it.
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Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
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China’s got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain’t right.
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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!
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I was the most subtle person in the world.
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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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I improvised my life along the way – I just moved step-by-step. And I knew that if I got better, something would happen.
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Let’s not get too full of ourselves. Let’s leave space for God to come into the room.
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You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
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You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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