I’ve met every freak in the business.
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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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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It’s amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don’t have anything else to do.
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If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You’re dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle.
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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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A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that’s the bottom line.
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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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My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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It’s easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.
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Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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I don’t remember feeling love.
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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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Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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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.
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The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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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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