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.
QUINCY JONESAll 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.”
More Quincy Jones Quotes
-
-
I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
QUINCY JONES -
I’m a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.
QUINCY JONES -
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.”
QUINCY JONES -
The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
QUINCY JONES -
Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
QUINCY JONES -
You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
QUINCY JONES -
A person’s age can be determined by the degree of pain he experiences when he comes in contact with a new idea.
QUINCY JONES -
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.
QUINCY JONES -
I look back and say, “This must have been somebody else.” I am not going to tell you that when I was 4, I dreamed about all of this.
QUINCY JONES -
My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
QUINCY JONES -
Let’s not get too full of ourselves. Let’s leave space for God to come into the room.
QUINCY JONES -
A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
QUINCY JONES -
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
QUINCY JONES -
I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
QUINCY JONES -
I was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
QUINCY JONES