Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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
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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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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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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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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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My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. ‘Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it’s done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.’
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Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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Let’s not get too full of ourselves. Let’s leave space for God to come into the room.
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I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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I improvised my life along the way – I just moved step-by-step. And I knew that if I got better, something would happen.
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A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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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’m a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.
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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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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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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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I’ve met every freak in the business.
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The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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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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Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.
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