Quote

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

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.
Playing
Game
Games
Gangster
Gangsters
Profitable
Unfortunately

More quotes by Quincy Jones

Image
The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.
Quincy Jones
Image
I used to practice piano for hours, and now, with a synthesizer, you can input the music and the machine perfects the song. That's why we have so many people in the music business who should be plumbers. They don't really understand music because they haven't been trained.
Quincy Jones
Image
The process is the most beautiful part.
Quincy Jones
Image
Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
Quincy Jones
Image
Benny [Carter] opened the eyes of a lot of producers and studios, so that they could understand that you could go to blacks for other things outside of blues and barbecue. He's a total musician. He was the pioneer, he was the foundation. He made it possible for that doubt to be taken away.
Quincy Jones
Image
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.
Quincy Jones
Image
You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
Quincy Jones
Image
To me it's no accident that all the symphony orchestras around the world tune up to the note A. And A is 440 cycles, except in Germany where it's 444. But the universe is 450 cycles. So what I'm trying to say is, I think it's God's voice, melody especially. Counterpoint, retrograde inversion, harmony... that's the science and the craft.
Quincy Jones
Image
A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape!
Quincy Jones
Image
All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
Quincy Jones
Image
Let's not get too full of ourselves. Let's leave space for God to come into the room.
Quincy Jones
Image
Eight kids and a stepmother, and I just wanted to be out of there and so when I got a scholarship from Boston to the Schillinger House, which is now the Berklee School of Music, I couldn't wait to get out of there.
Quincy Jones
Image
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.
Quincy Jones
Image
You have to know that your real home is within.
Quincy Jones
Image
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.
Quincy Jones
Image
Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.
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
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
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.
Quincy Jones
Image
They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
Quincy Jones