All the jazz guys had interracial relationships, and even the ladies did. Over the years, interracial relationships have been a hip, almost defiant thing, a way of saying “Nobody can put a boundary around me.”
QUINCY JONESArts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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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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You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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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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My grandmother had this high-tech security system – a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
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You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
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You have to know that your real home is within.
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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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Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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China’s got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain’t right.
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Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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I chose the trombone because the trombone players in the marching band got to be up front with the majorettes (because of the slides) and I loved that!
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I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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