I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
QUINCY JONESNot one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That’s the soul of a country.
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I improvised my life along the way – I just moved step-by-step. And I knew that if I got better, something would happen.
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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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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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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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Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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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.
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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.
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You have to know that your real home is within.
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I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
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Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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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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Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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It’s the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear.
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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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I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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I don’t remember feeling love.
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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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The process is the most beautiful part.
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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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Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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