Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.
QUINCY JONESIf architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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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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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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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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After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it’s worse than ever.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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I was the most subtle person in the world.
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Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
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I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
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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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Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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I’m never in my life going to do a record that’s a tribute to myself. I don’t need it.
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You have to know that your real home is within.
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The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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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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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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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
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I’ve met every freak in the business.
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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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Let’s not get too full of ourselves. Let’s leave space for God to come into the room.
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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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Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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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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