I never felt like I had a mother.
QUINCY JONESI never felt like I had a mother.
QUINCY JONESI’d been in love before – I was always in love.
QUINCY JONESI’m just a musician and a record producer.
QUINCY JONESA 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 JONESThe only music I don’t like is bad music.
QUINCY JONESArts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
QUINCY JONESPrince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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 JONESYou have to know that your real home is within.
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 JONESMy grandmother had this high-tech security system – a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
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.
QUINCY JONESEvery 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.
QUINCY JONESIf 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.
QUINCY JONESI’ve met every freak in the business.
QUINCY JONESIf I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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