Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
QUINCY JONESArts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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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’ve always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, “Ain’t that the truth.”
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What happens when you get a big break and you haven’t prepared yourself? That becomes the biggest mistake you’ve ever made. I see it happen all the time.
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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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My dream is to put together a performance of the evolution of black music with Cirque du Soleil . I would also like to do street opera and children’s books. But even as I work toward these things, I want to simplify my life.
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After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it’s worse than ever.
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The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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You have to know that your real home is within.
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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.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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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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I’m a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.
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