The relationship with a producer and an artist is really special. It’s got to be love and respect, amazing mutual respect for each other, because that’s what makes a good record.
QUINCY JONESMusic in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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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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If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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You have to know that your real home is within.
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After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it’s worse than ever.
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Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
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I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
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I don’t deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn’t deserve that, either. So I’ll keep it.
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Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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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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I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you’re supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.
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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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I was the most subtle person in the world.
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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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