Every day you must be able to say, I have to get up because I’m needed by someone. As long as you have that, you’re healthy.
QUINCY JONESMy 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.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
-
-
I improvised my life along the way – I just moved step-by-step. And I knew that if I got better, something would happen.
QUINCY JONES -
I don’t remember feeling love.
QUINCY JONES -
It’s the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear.
QUINCY JONES -
I’m never in my life going to do a record that’s a tribute to myself. I don’t need it.
QUINCY JONES -
If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You’re dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle.
QUINCY JONES -
You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
QUINCY JONES -
I chose the trombone because the trombone players in the marching band got to be up front with the majorettes (because of the slides) and I loved that!
QUINCY JONES -
My son is a hip-hop producer.
QUINCY JONES -
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!
QUINCY JONES -
A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that’s the bottom line.
QUINCY JONES -
Did you know you would become as successful as you have? Hell, no. But you know what? You were prepared, baby.
QUINCY JONES -
Every 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 JONES -
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.
QUINCY JONES -
I’ve met every freak in the business.
QUINCY JONES -
Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
QUINCY JONES