I’ve always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, “Ain’t that the truth.”
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.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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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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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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If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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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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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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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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Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.
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All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.
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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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I look back and say, “This must have been somebody else.” I am not going to tell you that when I was 4, I dreamed about all of this.
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Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. ‘Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it’s done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.’
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I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
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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 son is a hip-hop producer.
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It’s amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don’t have anything else to do.
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Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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Let’s not get too full of ourselves. Let’s leave space for God to come into the room.
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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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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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I was the most subtle person in the world.
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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 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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My grandmother had this high-tech security system – a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
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