I’m never in my life going to do a record that’s a tribute to myself. I don’t need it.
QUINCY JONESI was the most subtle person in the world.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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I was the most subtle person in the world.
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The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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I chose the trombone because the trombone players in the marching band got to be up front with the majorettes (because of the slides) and I loved that!
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Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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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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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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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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Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.
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My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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Hell, 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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I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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I don’t remember feeling love.
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