Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.

It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.

— 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…

— Quincy Jones

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

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

“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

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

— Quincy Jones

Imagine what a harmonious world it...

— Quincy Jones

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

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

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

I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.

— 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 stuff, 'cause…

— Quincy Jones

I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.

— Quincy Jones

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

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