The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious. — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
Young people should travel, and they don't. You can't know if you don't go. — Quincy Jones Copy Share 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 Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people. — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
A lot of the guys were like that - Oscar Pettiford - they just took me under their wing, and that's why… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
I used to practice piano for hours, and now, with a synthesizer, you can input the music and the machine perfects the… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
There's power in the collective. If you don't believe me, just watch a symphony orchestra with a conductor and 120 people who… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
I believe that a hundred years from now, when people look back at the 20th century, they will look at Miles, Bird,… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
The people who make it to the top - whether they're musicians, or great chefs, or corporate honchos - are addicted to… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
Seattle is like a global gumbo, a melting pot with all kinds of people - the rich, the poor, white people, some… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
I've been driven all my life by a spirit of adventure and a criminal level of optimism. I believed in my dreams… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do. — Quincy Jones Copy Share
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… — Quincy Jones Copy Share
It slaps your dignity just right. I loved the idea of these proud, dignified black men, and I saw the older ones wounded, and… — Quincy Jones Copy Share
I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance… — Quincy Jones Copy Share
“The tragedy of Tupac is that his untimely passing is representative of too many young black men in this country…If we had lost Oprah… — Quincy Jones Copy Share
Thank God, 50 years ago I learned that our entire business is all based on two things; a great song and a great story.… — Quincy Jones Copy Share
Sidney Poitier and Sidney Lumet were instrumental in helping me get started as the first black composer to get name credit for movie scores. — Quincy Jones Copy Share
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 Copy Share
I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me. — Quincy Jones Copy Share
I got to trumpet, finally. That's why I love to write for brass, and [Count] Basie and [Frank] Sinatra and all that stuff, 'cause… — Quincy Jones Copy Share
I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it. — Quincy Jones Copy Share
I look back and say, "This must have been somebody else." I am not going to tell you that when I was 4, I… — Quincy Jones Copy Share
I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to… — Quincy Jones Copy Share
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