Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
QUINCY JONESThey say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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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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We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don’t think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.
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You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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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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You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Whenever a woman would come too close, I would cut her off. Part of that was vindictive – but that was totally subconscious.
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Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.
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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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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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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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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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Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to come along and upset everybody.
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