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.
QUINCY JONESEditing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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I don’t deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn’t deserve that, either. So I’ll keep it.
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What happens when you get a big break and you haven’t prepared yourself? That becomes the biggest mistake you’ve ever made. I see it happen all the time.
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I’ve always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, “Ain’t that the truth.”
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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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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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If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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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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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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A person’s age can be determined by the degree of pain he experiences when he comes in contact with a new idea.
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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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You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. ‘Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it’s done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.’
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China’s got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain’t right.
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Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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