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.
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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When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
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A lot of the guys were like that – Oscar Pettiford – they just took me under their wing, and that’s why I automatically help young people. I just love it, because they did that for me.
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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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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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It’s amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don’t have anything else to do.
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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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Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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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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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 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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I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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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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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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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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I don’t remember feeling love.
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