All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
QUINCY JONESYou have to know that your real home is within.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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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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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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Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.
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Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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You have to know that your real home is within.
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I don’t remember feeling love.
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You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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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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I’ve always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, “Ain’t that the truth.”
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I’ve met every freak in the business.
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What happens when you get a big break and you haven’t prepared yourself? That becomes the biggest mistake you’ve ever made. I see it happen all the time.
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My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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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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The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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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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The process is the most beautiful part.
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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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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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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 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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Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
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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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Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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