My son is a hip-hop producer.
QUINCY JONESA person’s age can be determined by the degree of pain he experiences when he comes in contact with a new idea.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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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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I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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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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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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Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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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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You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
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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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If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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You have to know that your real home is within.
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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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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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They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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