My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
QUINCY JONESAll guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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I was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
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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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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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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 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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I 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.
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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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Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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Imagine 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.
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Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
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The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
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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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