I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
QUINCY JONESI found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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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!
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You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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I don’t remember feeling love.
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When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
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Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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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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The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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Did you know you would become as successful as you have? Hell, no. But you know what? You were prepared, baby.
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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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All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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My dream is to put together a performance of the evolution of black music with Cirque du Soleil . I would also like to do street opera and children’s books. But even as I work toward these things, I want to simplify my life.
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I chose the trombone because the trombone players in the marching band got to be up front with the majorettes (because of the slides) and I loved that!
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I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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