Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
QUINCY JONESWhen 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.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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I was the most subtle person in the world.
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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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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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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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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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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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Let’s not get too full of ourselves. Let’s leave space for God to come into the room.
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Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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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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Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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You have to know that your real home is within.
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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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A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that’s the bottom line.
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A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer – you put a great song on top of that, you’re really in great shape!
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