Quote

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

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.
Men
Forget
Overwhelmingly
Freedom
Transforming
Hope
Jazz
Power
Dignity
Together
Friendship
Music
Negative
Come
Circumstances
Make
Differences
Personification

More quotes by Quincy Jones

Image
My son is a hip-hop producer.
Quincy Jones
Image
The only music I don't like is bad music.
Quincy Jones
Image
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
Image
Let's not get too full of ourselves. Let's leave space for God to come into the room.
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
Image
A person's age can be determined by the degree of pain he experiences when he comes in contact with a new idea.
Quincy Jones
Image
I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.
Quincy Jones
Image
Communications are making this one world. Back in the day, 400-500 years ago, nobody knew what anyone else was doing. It's on the 6 O'Clock news now. Now we can say, Oh, that's the way they live. Oh, they do that!! Opportunities, the chance to bring about change, it's all based on communication. Communication and jet planes.
Quincy Jones
Image
The process is the most beautiful part.
Quincy Jones
Image
I was the most subtle person in the world.
Quincy Jones
Image
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
Image
A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that's the bottom line.
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
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
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
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
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
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
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
Quincy Jones
Image
Excellence isn't an act, it's a habit
Quincy Jones