Whenever a woman would come too close, I would cut her off. Part of that was vindictive – but that was totally subconscious.
QUINCY JONESBilly Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
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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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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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Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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I’m a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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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’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.
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