Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.
QUINCY JONESThe process is the most beautiful part.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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You have to know that your real home is within.
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Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
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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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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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A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that’s the bottom line.
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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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What happens when you get a big break and you haven’t prepared yourself? That becomes the biggest mistake you’ve ever made. I see it happen all the time.
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Every day you must be able to say, I have to get up because I’m needed by someone. As long as you have that, you’re healthy.
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If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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I was the most subtle person in the world.
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Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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I don’t deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn’t deserve that, either. So I’ll keep it.
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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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Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.
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I don’t remember feeling love.
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