Quincy Jones quotes - page 2

You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff. (Quincy Jones)

I like all music. The only music I don't like is bad music.

Quincy Jones

Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything.

Quincy Jones

If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

Quincy Jones

I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.

Quincy Jones

Just blow in it and sound bad for about a year and then make it sound a little bit better, and you get a little band together, and then you get a few jobs. You take four guys that sound half bad, but if they're 25 percent each, they can give 100 percent, you know?

Quincy Jones

I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.

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

My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren't related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store.

Quincy Jones

I never felt like I had a mother. (Quincy Jones)

I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.

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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

Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.

Quincy Jones

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

Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.

Quincy Jones

I was married for 36 years but now I'm free.

Quincy Jones

We spent most of our life almost like street rats just running around the street until we were ten years old.

Quincy Jones

Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.

Quincy Jones

My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.

Quincy Jones

Let's not get too full of ourselves. Let's leave space for God to come into the room. (Quincy Jones)

You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.

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.

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I've met every freak in the business.

Quincy Jones

The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.

Quincy Jones

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