They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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 just a musician and a record producer.
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The relationship with a producer and an artist is really special. It’s got to be love and respect, amazing mutual respect for each other, because that’s what makes a good record.
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I look back and say, “This must have been somebody else.” I am not going to tell you that when I was 4, I dreamed about all of this.
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I was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
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A 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.
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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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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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My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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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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I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
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A person’s age can be determined by the degree of pain he experiences when he comes in contact with a new idea.
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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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I’ve met every freak in the business.
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