Quote

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

Quincy Jones

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Quincy Jones
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
Actor
Autobiographer
Bandleader
Composer
Conductor
Film Producer
Humanitarian
Instrumentalist
Jazz Musician
Jazz Trumpeter
Music Arranger
Chicago
Illinois
Q
Quincy
Quincy Delight Jones Jr.
Quincy Delight Jones Jr
Quincy Jones Jr.
Doors
Rusty
Security
Nail
System
Tech
High
Lock
Used
Locks
Nails
Grandmother
Door

More quotes by Quincy Jones

Image
Every day you must be able to say, I have to get up because I'm needed by someone. As long as you have that, you're healthy.
Quincy Jones
Image
Excellence isn't an act, it's a habit
Quincy Jones
Image
Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.'
Quincy Jones
Image
A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
Quincy Jones
Image
It was messed up, because in 1947 my family moved to Seattle and I had to get up at 5:00 o'clock in the morning to catch the ferry back to Bremerton every morning because I was Boys Club president.
Quincy Jones
Image
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.
Quincy Jones
Image
I don't remember feeling love.
Quincy Jones
Image
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.
Quincy Jones
Image
The people who make it to the top - whether they're musicians, or great chefs, or corporate honchos - are addicted to their calling ... [they] are the ones who'd be doing whatever it is they love, even if they weren't being paid.
Quincy Jones
Image
I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, Ain't that the truth.
Quincy Jones
Image
I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
Quincy Jones
Image
A lot of the guys were like that - Oscar Pettiford - they just took me under their wing, and that's why I automatically help young people. I just love it, because they did that for me.
Quincy Jones
Image
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
Quincy Jones
Image
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.
Quincy Jones
Image
I was the most subtle person in the world.
Quincy Jones
Image
There's power in the collective. If you don't believe me, just watch a symphony orchestra with a conductor and 120 people who are thinking about exactly the same thing at the same moment - no babies, no stock markets, no mortgages. Just 32nd notes.
Quincy Jones
Image
The only music I don't like is bad music.
Quincy Jones
Image
Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
Quincy Jones
Image
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.
Quincy Jones
Image
Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.
Quincy Jones