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.”
QUINCY JONESIt’s the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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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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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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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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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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You have to know that your real home is within.
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If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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It’s amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don’t have anything else to do.
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Let’s not get too full of ourselves. Let’s leave space for God to come into the room.
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Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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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’m a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.
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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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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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I was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
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