All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
QUINCY JONESI’ve always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, “Ain’t that the truth.”
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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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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I was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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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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You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
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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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When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
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Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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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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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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I’ve met every freak in the business.
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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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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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The process is the most beautiful part.
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