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.
QUINCY JONESImagine 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.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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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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I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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You have to know that your real home is within.
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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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I was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
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I don’t remember feeling love.
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Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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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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The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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All 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.”
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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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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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Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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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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