I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
QUINCY JONESMusic in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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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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I chose the trombone because the trombone players in the marching band got to be up front with the majorettes (because of the slides) and I loved that!
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The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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The process is the most beautiful part.
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I was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
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Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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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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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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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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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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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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