Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
QUINCY JONESHell, 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.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
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Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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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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You have to know that your real home is within.
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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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My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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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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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 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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