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Quincy Jones
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Quincy Jones
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
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Quincy Delight Jones Jr.
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More quotes by Quincy Jones
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
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
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
My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
Quincy Jones
I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to know about everything.
Quincy Jones
After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it's worse than ever.
Quincy Jones
I don't remember feeling love.
Quincy Jones
Editing while you're writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
Quincy Jones
I was married for 36 years but now I'm free.
Quincy Jones
The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
Quincy Jones
I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.
Quincy Jones
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.
Quincy Jones
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
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.
Quincy Jones
I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
Quincy Jones
I was the most subtle person in the world.
Quincy Jones
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.
Quincy Jones
All the jazz guys had interracial relationships, and even the ladies did. Over the years, interracial relationships have been a hip, almost defiant thing, a way of saying Nobody can put a boundary around me.
Quincy Jones
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
A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that's the bottom line.
Quincy Jones