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.
QUINCY JONESYou have to know that your real home is within.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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I’ve met every freak in the business.
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I don’t remember feeling love.
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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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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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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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The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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My dream is to put together a performance of the evolution of black music with Cirque du Soleil . I would also like to do street opera and children’s books. But even as I work toward these things, I want to simplify my life.
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It’s easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.
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My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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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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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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A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
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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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