Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Let's not get too full of ourselves. Let's leave space for God to come into the room.
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.
Space
Come
Room
Rooms
Leave
Full
More quotes by Quincy Jones
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
Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
Quincy Jones
Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.
Quincy Jones
Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.
Quincy Jones
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
Some summers my father would take us down to visit our grandmother in Louisville, who was an ex-slave, Susan Jones, and she had a shotgun shack they call it, and no electricity, a well in the back, a coal stove, kerosene lamps.
Quincy Jones
I don't remember feeling love.
Quincy Jones
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
Quincy Jones
The process is the most beautiful part.
Quincy Jones
Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
Quincy Jones
I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.
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
The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, Ain't that the truth.
Quincy Jones
Editing while you're writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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
I've met every freak in the business.
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
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