All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
QUINCY JONESAll guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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I’ve always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, “Ain’t that the truth.”
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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 the jazz guys had interracial relationships, and even the ladies did. Over the years, interracial relationships have been a hip, almost defiant thing, a way of saying “Nobody can put a boundary around me.”
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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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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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You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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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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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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What happens when you get a big break and you haven’t prepared yourself? That becomes the biggest mistake you’ve ever made. I see it happen all the time.
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The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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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 learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you’re supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.
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When 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.
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I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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