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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.

Quincy Jones

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!
QUINCY JONES

Greatness Singer Sound Yourself
Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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Paint Record School
Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
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People Travel Young Yourself
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.
QUINCY JONES

Learning Listening Reality Talk Yourself
I was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
QUINCY JONES

Divorce Freedom Marriage Myself
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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Attitude Darkness Fear Life Light Love Man
You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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God Goodness Learning Mistake
If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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Mom Music Myself
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.
QUINCY JONES

Break Mistake Preparation Time Yourself
I’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
QUINCY JONES

Believe Flow Greatness Lyrics Myself
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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Father Hard Work Institution Mental Ourselves
I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
QUINCY JONES

Economics Money Myself Racism
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.
QUINCY JONES

Book Children Dreams Music Myself Performance Simplicity Togetherness
You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
QUINCY JONES

Afraid Yourself
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
QUINCY JONES

Architecture Frozen Music
Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That’s the soul of a country.
QUINCY JONES

Country Food Language Music Soul

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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