Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.
QUINCY JONESMy son is a hip-hop producer.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
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Let’s not get too full of ourselves. Let’s leave space for God to come into the room.
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If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You’re dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle.
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I was the most subtle person in the world.
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You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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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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I don’t remember feeling love.
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The process is the most beautiful part.
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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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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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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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I was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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