I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
QUINCY JONESThey say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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Let’s not get too full of ourselves. Let’s leave space for God to come into the room.
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A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that’s the bottom line.
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Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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I’ve always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, “Ain’t that the truth.”
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I’ve met every freak in the business.
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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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A lot of the guys were like that – Oscar Pettiford – they just took me under their wing, and that’s why I automatically help young people. I just love it, because they did that for me.
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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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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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Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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You have to know that your real home is within.
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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.
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I don’t remember feeling love.
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If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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