Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That’s the soul of a country.
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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I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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I don’t remember feeling love.
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The process is the most beautiful part.
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Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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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.
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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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I was the most subtle person in the world.
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The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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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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Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
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When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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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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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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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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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 was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
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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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Let’s not get too full of ourselves. Let’s leave space for God to come into the room.
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The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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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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If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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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.
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The relationship with a producer and an artist is really special. It’s got to be love and respect, amazing mutual respect for each other, because that’s what makes a good record.
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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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