Quote

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

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.
Much
Supposed
Gave
Early
Listen
Learned
Twice
Talk
Mouth
Two
Mouths
Real
Ears

More quotes by 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
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
Image
I was married for 36 years but now I'm free.
Quincy Jones
Image
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
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
China's got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain't right.
Quincy Jones
Image
All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
Quincy Jones
Image
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
Image
You have to know that your real home is within.
Quincy Jones
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
Quincy Jones
Image
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
Quincy Jones
Image
My brother died of cancer two years ago (1998), renal cell carcinoma. He was my only real brother and I didn't know what to do. I'd never been so desperate in my life.
Quincy Jones
Image
Excellence isn't an act, it's a habit
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
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
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
Let's not get too full of ourselves. Let's leave space for God to come into the room.
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