They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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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I never felt like I had a mother.
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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 only music I don’t like is bad music.
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Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.
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Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
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I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.
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I was the most subtle person in the world.
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You have to know that your real home is within.
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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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You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
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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 found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
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