When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
QUINCY JONESIf architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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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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Let’s not get too full of ourselves. Let’s leave space for God to come into the room.
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I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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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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If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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I look back and say, “This must have been somebody else.” I am not going to tell you that when I was 4, I dreamed about all of this.
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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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I’m a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.
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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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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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Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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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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