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!
QUINCY JONESYoung people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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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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The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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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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My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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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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I never felt like I had a mother.
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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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I don’t remember feeling love.
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China’s got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain’t right.
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Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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