Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
QUINCY JONESMusic in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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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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I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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The process is the most beautiful part.
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Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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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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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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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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If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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My grandmother had this high-tech security system – a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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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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Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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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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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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Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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