Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
QUINCY JONESA song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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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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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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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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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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I’m never in my life going to do a record that’s a tribute to myself. I don’t need it.
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They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
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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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You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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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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If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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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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