A lot of the guys were like that – Oscar Pettiford – they just took me under their wing, and that’s why I automatically help young people. I just love it, because they did that for me.
QUINCY JONESWhen I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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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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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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If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You’re dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle.
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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.
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Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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I’m never in my life going to do a record that’s a tribute to myself. I don’t need it.
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Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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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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Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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Imagine 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.
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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’ve met every freak in the business.
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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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