If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
QUINCY JONESNot one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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I’ve met every freak in the business.
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Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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My grandmother had this high-tech security system – a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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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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A person’s age can be determined by the degree of pain he experiences when he comes in contact with a new idea.
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Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.
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I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you’re supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.
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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 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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A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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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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The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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