If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
QUINCY JONESA song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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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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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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All the jazz guys had interracial relationships, and even the ladies did. Over the years, interracial relationships have been a hip, almost defiant thing, a way of saying “Nobody can put a boundary around me.”
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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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When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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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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I was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
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It’s the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear.
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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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After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it’s worse than ever.
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My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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I don’t remember feeling love.
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You have to know that your real home is within.
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The process is the most beautiful part.
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You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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I’ve met every freak in the business.
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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.
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They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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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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A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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Editing while you’re writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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