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.
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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You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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My grandmother had this high-tech security system – a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
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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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Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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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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Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to come along and upset everybody.
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If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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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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Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
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I don’t remember feeling love.
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The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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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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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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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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