I’m just a musician and a record producer.
QUINCY JONESI’m just a musician and a record producer.
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.’
QUINCY JONESIf I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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 JONESNot one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
QUINCY JONESI 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.
QUINCY JONESA person’s age can be determined by the degree of pain he experiences when he comes in contact with a new idea.
QUINCY JONESThe only music I don’t like is bad music.
QUINCY JONESExcellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
QUINCY JONESI’ve always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, “Ain’t that the truth.”
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 JONESI was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
QUINCY JONESMy earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
QUINCY JONESYoung people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
QUINCY JONESPrince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
QUINCY JONESYou Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
QUINCY JONES