I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
QUINCY JONESYoung people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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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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A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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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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When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
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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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You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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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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I’m just a musician and a record 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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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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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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China’s got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain’t right.
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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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