The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
QUINCY JONESI’d been in love before – I was always in love.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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It’s easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.
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The only music I don’t like is bad music.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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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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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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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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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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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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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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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’d been in love before – I was always in love.
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My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
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