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.’
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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The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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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’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’m a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.
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I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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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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My grandmother had this high-tech security system – a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
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A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer – you put a great song on top of that, you’re really in great shape!
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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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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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Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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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 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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I was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
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