Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
You have to know that your real home is within.
Quincy Jones
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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.
Within
Home
Real
More quotes by 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
Excellence isn't an act, it's a habit
Quincy Jones
Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
Quincy Jones
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
Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.
Quincy Jones
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.
Quincy Jones
China's got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain't right.
Quincy Jones
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
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
I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.
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 was the most subtle person in the world.
Quincy Jones
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
A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that's the bottom line.
Quincy Jones
All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
Quincy Jones
Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.
Quincy Jones
I was married for 36 years but now I'm free.
Quincy Jones
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
Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.
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
