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.
QUINCY JONESI 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.
QUINCY JONESI’ve met every freak in the business.
QUINCY JONESYou cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
QUINCY JONESWhen you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
QUINCY JONESI started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
QUINCY JONESCount Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.
QUINCY JONESI 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.
QUINCY JONESI don’t remember feeling love.
QUINCY JONESWhenever a woman would come too close, I would cut her off. Part of that was vindictive – but that was totally subconscious.
QUINCY JONESA bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that’s the bottom line.
QUINCY JONESThe act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
QUINCY JONESA song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
QUINCY JONESI never felt like I had a mother.
QUINCY JONESMusic in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
QUINCY JONESI improvised my life along the way – I just moved step-by-step. And I knew that if I got better, something would happen.
QUINCY JONESHell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to come along and upset everybody.
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