The process is the most beautiful part.
QUINCY JONESWhen you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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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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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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You have to know that your real home is within.
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You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
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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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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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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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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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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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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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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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My grandmother had this high-tech security system – a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
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