Quincy Jones Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff”
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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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“Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.”
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“Empty the cup every time and it comes back at twice as full. I developed that attitude when I was very, very young, when I decided I didn't want to be a gangster anymore. Whether it's just shining shoes, I said okay, I'm going to do this better than anybody else did it in my life.”
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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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“A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that's the bottom line.”
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“I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, "Ain't that the truth."”
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“Thank God, 50 years ago I learned that a great song, our entire business is all based on two things; a great song and a great story. Film, television, if you don't have that story, nothing else matters. You don't call anybody else or direct anybody. The same with a song. A great song can make the worst singer in the world a star.”
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“The only music I don't like is bad music.”
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“I got to trumpet, finally. That's why I love to write for brass, and [Count] Basie and [Frank] Sinatra and all that stuff, 'cause that's just like part of my DNA.”
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“I've been driven all my life by a spirit of adventure and a criminal level of optimism. I believed in my dreams because they were my only option. The people who make it to the top are addicted to their calling. You have to honor the gift God has given you. The people who get the call are the ones who'd be doing whatever it is they love, even if they weren't being paid.”
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“I never felt like that in my life. I didn't know human beings played these instruments. I heard them in Chicago and Louisville and St. Louis all my life, you know? But I didn't know human beings played them, you know? So the next day I went to Coontz Junior High School and I started on sousaphone, tuba, B-flat baritone, E-flat alto, French horn, trombone.”
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“If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.”
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“If I don't have a mother, I'll let music be my mother.”
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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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“I go to the favelas in Brazil. It's the same in the South Side of Chicago. It's the same, or just more violent. We're trying to get them to stop selling dope. You see kids with AK-47s, and nine-year-olds with nine millimeters. You know, they don't play. They make us look like nuns.”
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“I'm a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.”
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“My daddy was a carpenter that worked with the Jones boys, who are the most notorious in America. The black gangsters, you know, they were no joke. And he was their master carpenter. He used to build their homes, and all I saw when I was 11 years old were dead bodies and tommy guns and stogies, and backrooms, you know, Drexel Wine and Liquor, with the big piles of money underneath.”
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“You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.”
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“It's very freaky in Chicago.There's something in the water there, I don't know what it is. But the actual word Chicago means, in the Indian language, garlic. It was just garlic and mosquitoes there.And that is the roughest city on the planet, and I been to every place in the world.”
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“Jazz has the power to make men forget their differences and come together... Jazz is the personification of transforming overwhelmingly negative circumstances into freedom, friendship, hope, and dignity.”
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“I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you're supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.”
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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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“Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.”
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“I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every night club, listened to every band that came through, because in those days we didn't have MTV, we didn't have television.”
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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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“My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.”
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“I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.”
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“Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.”
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“I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.”
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