Did you know you would become as successful as you have? Hell, no. But you know what? You were prepared, baby.
QUINCY JONESI’m a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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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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If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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It’s amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don’t have anything else to do.
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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!
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A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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You have to know that your real home is within.
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The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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My grandmother had this high-tech security system – a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
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I’m just a musician and a record producer.
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Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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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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I never felt like I had a mother.
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Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
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Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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I look back and say, “This must have been somebody else.” I am not going to tell you that when I was 4, I dreamed about all of this.
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