China’s got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain’t right.
QUINCY JONESI’m never in my life going to do a record that’s a tribute to myself. I don’t need it.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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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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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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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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I’ve met every freak in the business.
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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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My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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You have to know that your real home is within.
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When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.
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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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Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
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You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.
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It’s amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don’t have anything else to do.
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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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Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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