I never felt like I had a mother.
QUINCY JONESI’ve always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, “Ain’t that the truth.”
More Quincy Jones Quotes
-
-
It’s amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don’t have anything else to do.
QUINCY JONES -
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!
QUINCY JONES -
I’m a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.
QUINCY JONES -
You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
QUINCY JONES -
Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That’s the soul of a country.
QUINCY JONES -
The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
QUINCY JONES -
I was the most subtle person in the world.
QUINCY JONES -
China’s got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain’t right.
QUINCY JONES -
I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
QUINCY JONES -
A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
QUINCY JONES -
My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
QUINCY JONES -
A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that’s the bottom line.
QUINCY JONES -
Whenever a woman would come too close, I would cut her off. Part of that was vindictive – but that was totally subconscious.
QUINCY JONES -
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.
QUINCY JONES -
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.
QUINCY JONES