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.
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’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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I improvised my life along the way – I just moved step-by-step. And I knew that if I got better, something would happen.
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I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you’re supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.
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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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Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. ‘Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it’s done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.’
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I’ve always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, “Ain’t that the truth.”
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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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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That’s the soul of a country.
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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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I’m never in my life going to do a record that’s a tribute to myself. I don’t need it.
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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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My grandmother had this high-tech security system – a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
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When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
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Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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