Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That’s the soul of a country.
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’m just a musician and a record producer.
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Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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I was the most subtle person in the world.
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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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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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A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that’s the bottom line.
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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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All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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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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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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I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.
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You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. ‘Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it’s done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.’
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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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It’s the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear.
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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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My grandmother had this high-tech security system – a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
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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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A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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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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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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Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
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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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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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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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