I’m never in my life going to do a record that’s a tribute to myself. I don’t need it.
QUINCY JONESEvery 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.’
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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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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All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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It’s the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear.
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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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It’s amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don’t have anything else to do.
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Hell, 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.
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Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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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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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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Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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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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The process is the most beautiful part.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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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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