Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
QUINCY JONESChina’s got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain’t right.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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Prince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
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A lot of the guys were like that – Oscar Pettiford – they just took me under their wing, and that’s why I automatically help young people. I just love it, because they did that for me.
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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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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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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That’s the soul of a country.
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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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You have to know that your real home is within.
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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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I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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I don’t remember feeling love.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
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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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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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The process is the most beautiful part.
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