Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
QUINCY JONESWe 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.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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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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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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I’ve met every freak in the business.
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I don’t remember feeling love.
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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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Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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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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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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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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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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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 married for 36 years but now I’m free.
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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’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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