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.
QUINCY JONESExcellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
-
-
We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don’t think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.
QUINCY JONES -
Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
QUINCY JONES -
My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
QUINCY JONES -
Did you know you would become as successful as you have? Hell, no. But you know what? You were prepared, baby.
QUINCY JONES -
Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
QUINCY JONES -
My grandmother had this high-tech security system – a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
QUINCY JONES -
I was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
QUINCY JONES -
When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
QUINCY JONES -
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.
QUINCY JONES -
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.
QUINCY JONES -
Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
QUINCY JONES -
All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
QUINCY JONES -
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 JONES -
Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
QUINCY JONES -
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.
QUINCY JONES