Quincy Jones Quotes

• What happens when you get a big break and you haven't prepared yourself? That becomes the biggest mistake you've ever made. I see it happen all the time.

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• Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.

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  "Does U.S. Need A Culture Czar?". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. January 16, 2009.

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• Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.

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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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  "Quincy Jones Recalls "Freaking Out" at Michael Jackson's Death and His Private Nickname for the Star". Inteview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 11, 2015.

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• If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

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• When you're over the hill, that's when you pick up speed.

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• Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to come along and upset everybody.

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• Music was the one thing I could control. It was the one world that offered me freedom. When I played music, my nightmares ended. My family problems disappeared. I didnt have to search for answers. The answers lay no further than the bell of my trumpet and my scrawled, pencilled scores. Music made me full, strong, popular, self-reliant and cool.

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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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• 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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• 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.

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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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• My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.

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• You have to know that your real home is within.

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• Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.

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• I'd been in love before - I was always in love.

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• I don't remember feeling love.

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• I've met every freak in the business.

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  "Quincy Jones says Michael Jackson didn't want to be black". Interview with Tim Henle, newsok.com. May 16, 2013.

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• A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.

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• Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.

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• Im probably the only one in the world you can name thats worked with Billie Holiday, Louie Armstrong, Ella, Duke, Miles, Dizzy, Ray Charles, Aretha, Michael Jackson, rappers. Fly Me to the Moon was played on the moon by Buzz Aldrin. Sinatra. Paul Simon. Tony Bennett. Im the only one.

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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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• I chose the trombone because the trombone players in the marching band got to be up front with the majorettes (because of the slides) and I loved that!

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  "Grammy Legend Award". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 28, 2000.

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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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  "Grammy Legend Award". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 28, 2000.

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• They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.

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• Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.

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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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  School   Next Day   Juniors  

  "Quincy Jones Recalls "Freaking Out" at Michael Jackson's Death and His Private Nickname for the Star". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 11, 2015.

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• If I don't have a mother, I'll let music be my mother.

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  "Quincy Jones Recalls "Freaking Out" at Michael Jackson's Death and His Private Nickname for the Star". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 11, 2015.

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• It's the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear.

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• The process is the most beautiful part.

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