The only music I don’t like is bad music.
QUINCY JONESEvery 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.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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I was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
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I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.
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They say a blind hog will find the acorn 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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Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
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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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When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
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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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I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you’re supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.
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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.”
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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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The process is the most beautiful part.
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Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. ‘Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it’s done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.’
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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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