Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.
QUINCY JONESBilly Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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I don’t remember feeling love.
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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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A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that’s the bottom line.
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The process is the most beautiful part.
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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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All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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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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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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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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