I’ve always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, “Ain’t that the truth.”
QUINCY JONESI don’t remember feeling love.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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I was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
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Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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The process is the most beautiful part.
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I don’t deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn’t deserve that, either. So I’ll keep it.
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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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The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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I was the most subtle person in the world.
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I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
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You cannot get an A if you’re afraid of getting an F.
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A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that’s the bottom line.
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You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
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A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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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.
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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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