If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
QUINCY JONESIf I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
QUINCY JONESYou Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
QUINCY JONESLet’s not get too full of ourselves. Let’s leave space for God to come into the room.
QUINCY JONESMy dream is to put together a performance of the evolution of black music with Cirque du Soleil . I would also like to do street opera and children’s books. But even as I work toward these things, I want to simplify my life.
QUINCY JONESMusic in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
QUINCY JONESA bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that’s the bottom line.
QUINCY JONESI 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.
QUINCY JONESArts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
QUINCY JONESThe process is the most beautiful part.
QUINCY JONESA 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!
QUINCY JONESA song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
QUINCY JONESImagine 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.
QUINCY JONESI 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.
QUINCY JONESThe relationship with a producer and an artist is really special. It’s got to be love and respect, amazing mutual respect for each other, because that’s what makes a good record.
QUINCY JONESIt’s the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear.
QUINCY JONESWhenever 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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