You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
QUINCY JONESIt’s easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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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 found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
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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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It’s amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don’t have anything else to do.
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They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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The process is the most beautiful part.
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A person’s age can be determined by the degree of pain he experiences when he comes in contact with a new idea.
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I’ve met every freak in the business.
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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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Whenever a woman would come too close, I would cut her off. Part of that was vindictive – but that was totally subconscious.
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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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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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