All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
QUINCY JONESYou cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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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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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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A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that’s the bottom line.
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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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If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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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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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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Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.
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You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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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.
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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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The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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Every day you must be able to say, I have to get up because I’m needed by someone. As long as you have that, you’re healthy.
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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!
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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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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That’s the soul of a country.
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Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.
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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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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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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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