You have to know that your real home is within.
QUINCY JONESI’d been in love before – I was always in love.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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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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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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All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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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.
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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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I never felt like I had a mother.
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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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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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It’s amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don’t have anything else to do.
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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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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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Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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