I’m just a musician and a record producer.
QUINCY JONESI’m just a musician and a record producer.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
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You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.
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I 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.
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Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
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A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that’s the bottom line.
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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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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That’s the soul of a country.
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Whenever 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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Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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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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My grandmother had this high-tech security system – a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
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It’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.
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