Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.
QUINCY JONESImagine 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.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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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’m just a musician and a record producer.
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Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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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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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.
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Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
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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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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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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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If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You’re dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle.
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I’ve met every freak in the business.
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I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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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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Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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