If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
QUINCY JONESA bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that’s the bottom line.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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I’ve met every freak in the business.
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I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
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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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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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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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I’m a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.
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The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
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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 was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
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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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Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that’s the bottom line.
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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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