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 JONESI’d been in love before – I was always in love.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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The relationship with a producer and an artist is really special. It’s got to be love and respect, amazing mutual respect for each other, because that’s what makes a good record.
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After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it’s worse than ever.
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I was the most subtle person in the world.
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A person’s age can be determined by the degree of pain he experiences when he comes in contact with a new idea.
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Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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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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It’s amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don’t have anything else to do.
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All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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I don’t remember feeling love.
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I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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I improvised my life along the way – I just moved step-by-step. And I knew that if I got better, something would happen.
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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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You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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I’ve met every freak in the business.
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