China’s got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain’t right.
QUINCY JONESWhenever a woman would come too close, I would cut her off. Part of that was vindictive – but that was totally subconscious.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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I’ve met every freak in the business.
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I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.
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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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I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
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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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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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You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
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If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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I’m a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.
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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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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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