My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
QUINCY JONESA song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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I’ve met every freak in the business.
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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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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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We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don’t think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.
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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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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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I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
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Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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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.
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When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
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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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I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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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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Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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