I’m just a musician and a record producer.
QUINCY JONESNot one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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I don’t remember feeling love.
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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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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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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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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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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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A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that’s the bottom line.
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I’ve always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, “Ain’t that the truth.”
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The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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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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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.
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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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Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.
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