I was the most subtle person in the world.
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 never felt like I had a mother.
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I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
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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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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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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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I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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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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Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.
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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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The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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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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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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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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