I was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
QUINCY JONESEvery 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.’
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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I don’t remember feeling love.
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You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That’s the soul of a country.
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Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.
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You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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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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I was the most subtle person in the world.
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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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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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I improvised my life along the way – I just moved step-by-step. And I knew that if I got better, something would happen.
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