Let’s not get too full of ourselves. Let’s leave space for God to come into the room.
QUINCY JONESYou can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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I’ve met every freak in the business.
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I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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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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A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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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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I don’t remember feeling love.
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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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You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
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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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Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That’s the soul of a country.
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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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It’s amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don’t have anything else to do.
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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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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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My dream is to put together a performance of the evolution of black music with Cirque du Soleil . I would also like to do street opera and children’s books. But even as I work toward these things, I want to simplify my life.
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I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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I was the most subtle person in the world.
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I improvised my life along the way – I just moved step-by-step. And I knew that if I got better, something would happen.
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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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