If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You’re dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle.
QUINCY JONESAll the jazz guys had interracial relationships, and even the ladies did. Over the years, interracial relationships have been a hip, almost defiant thing, a way of saying “Nobody can put a boundary around me.”
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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Every day you must be able to say, I have to get up because I’m needed by someone. As long as you have that, you’re healthy.
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Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
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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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My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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It’s amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don’t have anything else to do.
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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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