black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.

Quincy Jones

I never felt like I had a mother.
QUINCY JONES

Feeling Mom Myself
You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
QUINCY JONES

God Goodness Learning Mistake
Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to come along and upset everybody.
QUINCY JONES

Children Come Music Upset
You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
QUINCY JONES

Afraid Yourself
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.
QUINCY JONES

Learning Listening Reality Talk Yourself
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.
QUINCY JONES

Ground Industry Myself Place
If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
QUINCY JONES

Mom Music Myself
I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
QUINCY JONES

Hope Imagination Myself Society Start
You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
QUINCY JONES

God Harmony Melody Music Study Yourself
My son is a hip-hop producer.
QUINCY JONES

Job Myself Production Son
All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
QUINCY JONES

Love Music Relationship Woman
Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.
QUINCY JONES

Age End Myself Practice Time
You have to know that your real home is within.
QUINCY JONES

Home Reality Spiritual Yourself
Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
QUINCY JONES

People Travel Young Yourself
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 JONES

Artist Goodness Love Production Relationship Respect
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 JONES

Greatness Singer Sound Yourself

I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Quincy Jones Quotes