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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Let’s not get too full of ourselves. Let’s leave space for God to come into the room.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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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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You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
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Let’s not get too full of ourselves. Let’s leave space for God to come into the room.
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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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A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
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I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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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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Every 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.
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If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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I don’t remember feeling love.
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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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We 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.
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Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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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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