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 Image
I never felt like that in my life. I didn't know human beings played these instruments. I heard them in Chicago and… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
Louis 'Thunder Thumbs' Johnson was one of the greatest bass players to ever pick up the instrument, as a member of the… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We spent most of our life almost like street rats just running around the street until we were ten years old. — 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
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 Copy Share Image
It's the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear. — 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 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… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
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 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… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me. — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
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 Image
