Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
QUINCY JONESYou Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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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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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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The process is the most beautiful part.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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I’ve met every freak in the business.
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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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I’m a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.
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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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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 was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
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I was the most subtle person in the world.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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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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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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