If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
QUINCY JONESI’ve met every freak in the business.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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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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Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
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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 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’m just a musician and a record producer.
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Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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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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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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What happens when you get a big break and you haven’t prepared yourself? That becomes the biggest mistake you’ve ever made. I see it happen all the time.
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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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I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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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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All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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