It’s amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don’t have anything else to do.
QUINCY JONESIf architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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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 found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
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The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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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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All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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It’s the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear.
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I was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
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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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Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.
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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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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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You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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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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You have to know that your real home is within.
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