Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
QUINCY JONESThe only music I don’t like is bad music.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don’t think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.
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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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A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that’s the bottom line.
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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 was the most subtle person in the world.
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Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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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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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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If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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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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I improvised my life along the way – I just moved step-by-step. And I knew that if I got better, something would happen.
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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That’s the soul of a country.
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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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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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