Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That’s the soul of a country.
QUINCY JONESEvery country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That’s the soul of a country.
QUINCY JONESPrince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
QUINCY JONESAfter 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.
QUINCY JONESThe only music I don’t like is bad music.
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 JONESI found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
QUINCY JONESI don’t deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn’t deserve that, either. So I’ll keep it.
QUINCY JONESI improvised my life along the way – I just moved step-by-step. And I knew that if I got better, something would happen.
QUINCY JONESYoung people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
QUINCY JONESI started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to 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.
QUINCY JONESA lot of the guys were like that – Oscar Pettiford – they just took me under their wing, and that’s why I automatically help young people. I just love it, because they did that for me.
QUINCY JONESI’ve always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, “Ain’t that the truth.”
QUINCY JONESIf architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
QUINCY JONESIt’s easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.
QUINCY JONESI was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
QUINCY JONES