If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
QUINCY JONESA person’s age can be determined by the degree of pain he experiences when he comes in contact with a new idea.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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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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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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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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Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.
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Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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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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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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I’m a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.
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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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I was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
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It’s easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.
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I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
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