You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
QUINCY JONESIf I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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China’s got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain’t right.
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A person’s age can be determined by the degree of pain he experiences when he comes in contact with a new idea.
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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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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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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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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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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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I’m never in my life going to do a record that’s a tribute to myself. I don’t need it.
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After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it’s worse than ever.
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The relationship with a producer and an artist is really special. It’s got to be love and respect, amazing mutual respect for each other, because that’s what makes a good record.
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The process is the most beautiful part.
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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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If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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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.”
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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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