Quincy Jones

Imagine what a harmonious world it...

— Quincy Jones

I'm not a psychiatrist.

— Quincy Jones

My son is a hip-hop producer.

— Quincy Jones

I've met every freak in the business.

— Quincy Jones

I live on the Internet.

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I don't remember feeling love.

— Quincy Jones

The process is the most beautiful part.

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

— Quincy Jones

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

— Quincy Jones

When you're over the hill, that's when you pick up speed.

— Quincy Jones

Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.

— Quincy Jones

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

— Quincy Jones

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

— Quincy Jones

Young people should travel, and they don't. You can't know if you don't go.

— Quincy Jones

A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that's the bottom line.

— Quincy Jones

When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.

— Quincy Jones

Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.

— 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

When you work with Ray Charles, Billy Eckstine and Frank Sinatra, and you tell them to jump without a net, you better…

— Quincy Jones

Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is…

— Quincy Jones

I got to trumpet, finally. That's why I love to write for brass, and [Count] Basie and [Frank] Sinatra and all that…

— Quincy Jones

I look back and say, "This must have been somebody else." I am not going to tell you that when I was…

— Quincy Jones

I improvised my life along the way - I just moved step-by-step. And I knew that if I got better, something would…

— Quincy Jones

Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.

— Quincy Jones

Just blow in it and sound bad for about a year and then make it sound a little bit better, and you…

— Quincy Jones

A lot of the guys were like that - Oscar Pettiford - they just took me under their wing, and that's why…

— Quincy Jones

You want your parents to say, "Hey, I'm proud of you." When you don't hear that, you learn to compensate. You say,…

— Quincy Jones

I've never been bored in my life, man. I've never been bored or lonely. Are you kidding? No way! I'm an orchestrator,…

— Quincy Jones

I used to practice piano for hours, and now, with a synthesizer, you can input the music and the machine perfects the…

— Quincy Jones

It was messed up, because in 1947 my family moved to Seattle and I had to get up at 5:00 o'clock in…

— Quincy Jones

Eight kids and a stepmother, and I just wanted to be out of there and so when I got a scholarship from…

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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school…

— Quincy Jones

My daddy was a carpenter that worked with the Jones boys, who are the most notorious in America. The black gangsters, you…

— Quincy Jones

Though negative things have happened to me, God somehow let me know that becoming bitter was not the way to go. You…

— Quincy Jones

“The tragedy of Tupac is that his untimely passing is representative of too many young black men in this country…If we had…

— Quincy Jones

There’s nothing in the world worse than having an opportunity that you’re not prepared for. Good luck usually follows the collision of…

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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

Louis 'Thunder Thumbs' Johnson was one of the greatest bass players to ever pick up the instrument, as a member of the…

— Quincy Jones

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

— Quincy Jones

Excellence isn't an act, it's a habit

— Quincy Jones