You have to know that your real home is within.
QUINCY JONESI 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.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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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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My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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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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Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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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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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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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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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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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.
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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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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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If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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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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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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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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