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.
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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I’ve always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, “Ain’t that the truth.”
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I was the most subtle person in the world.
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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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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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I’m never in my life going to do a record that’s a tribute to myself. I don’t need 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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The process is the most beautiful part.
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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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I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That’s the soul of a country.
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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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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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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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It’s amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don’t have anything else to do.
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