black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.

Quincy Jones

Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
QUINCY JONES

Movie Music Rhythm
All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
QUINCY JONES

Love Music Relationship Woman
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
QUINCY JONES

Architecture Frozen Music
Whenever a woman would come too close, I would cut her off. Part of that was vindictive – but that was totally subconscious.
QUINCY JONES

Consciousness Myself Woman
I’ve met every freak in the business.
QUINCY JONES

Business Freak Myself
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.
QUINCY JONES

Award Brain Deserve Fame Myself Operation
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.
QUINCY JONES

Change Music Thinking Understand War Worst Yourself
A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that’s the bottom line.
QUINCY JONES

Bad Myself Save Sing Song
My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
QUINCY JONES

Early Memories Myself
I’m just a musician and a record producer.
QUINCY JONES

Music Player Record
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!
QUINCY JONES

Choice Love Myself Player
When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
QUINCY JONES

Deep Fall Place Speed Yourself
I never felt like I had a mother.
QUINCY JONES

Feeling Mom Myself
Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to come along and upset everybody.
QUINCY JONES

Children Come Music Upset
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.
QUINCY JONES

Class Easy Music Reminder Theory Yourself
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.
QUINCY JONES

Book Children Dreams Music Myself Performance Simplicity Togetherness
Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
QUINCY JONES

Acceptance Confidence Myself Worth Yourself
I’ve always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, “Ain’t that the truth.”
QUINCY JONES

Laughter Loud Myself Truth
They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
QUINCY JONES

Blind Dog Finding Food
I was the most subtle person in the world.
QUINCY JONES

Myself Person World
Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
QUINCY JONES

Artist Death True World
I’m never in my life going to do a record that’s a tribute to myself. I don’t need it.
QUINCY JONES

Life Myself Need Record Tribute
Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That’s the soul of a country.
QUINCY JONES

Country Food Language Music Soul
If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
QUINCY JONES

Mom Music Myself
Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
QUINCY JONES

People Travel Young Yourself
The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
QUINCY JONES

Act Arrangement Record
Did you know you would become as successful as you have? Hell, no. But you know what? You were prepared, baby.
QUINCY JONES

Inspirational Preparation Success Yourself

Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Quincy Jones Quotes