Did you know you would become as successful as you have? Hell, no. But you know what? You were prepared, baby.
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.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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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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China’s got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain’t right.
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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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I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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I don’t remember feeling love.
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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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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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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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You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
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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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I don’t deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn’t deserve that, either. So I’ll keep it.
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My grandmother had this high-tech security system – a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
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