The only music I don’t like is bad music.
QUINCY JONESMy earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer – you put a great song on top of that, you’re really in great shape!
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I’ve met every freak in the business.
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You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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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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Did you know you would become as successful as you have? Hell, no. But you know what? You were prepared, baby.
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I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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I don’t remember feeling love.
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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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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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You have to know that your real home is within.
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I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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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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Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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