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 JONESI learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you’re supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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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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Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.
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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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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 look back and say, “This must have been somebody else.” I am not going to tell you that when I was 4, I dreamed about all of this.
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My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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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’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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I chose the trombone because the trombone players in the marching band got to be up front with the majorettes (because of the slides) and I loved that!
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You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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Did you know you would become as successful as you have? Hell, no. But you know what? You were prepared, baby.
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A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that’s the bottom line.
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I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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I’m a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.
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Let’s not get too full of ourselves. Let’s leave space for God to come into the room.
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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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I don’t deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn’t deserve that, either. So I’ll keep it.
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Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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I don’t remember feeling love.
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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’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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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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You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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