Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release. — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture. — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that's the bottom line. — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country. — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls. — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
I don't deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn't deserve… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God. — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
Melody is king, and don't you ever forget it. Lyrics appear to be out front, but they're not; they're just an accompanying… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
My dream is to put together a performance of the evolution of black music with Cirque du Soleil . I would also… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
Everybody, no matter what vocation they're looking at, should add music as an essential to their curriculum. Music can be a very… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
Benny [Carter] opened the eyes of a lot of producers and studios, so that they could understand that you could go to… — 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… — 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
It's easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention.… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
Music was the one thing I could control. It was the one world that offered me freedom. When I played music, my… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
I lost my mother when I was 7 and they put her in a mental hospital. My brother and I watched her… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is… — 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
Jazz has the power to make men forget their differences and come together... Jazz is the personification of transforming overwhelmingly negative circumstances… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
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 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
![“Benny [Carter] opened the eyes of a lot of producers and studios, so that they could understand that you could go to blacks for other things outside of blues and barbecue. He's a total musician. He was the pioneer, he was the foundation. He made it possible for that doubt to be taken away.” quote by Quincy Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a9d/quincy-jones-2731_barbecue_benny-carter-opened-the-eyes-of-a-lot-of_1274761.jpg)
![“The people who make it to the top - whether they're musicians, or great chefs, or corporate honchos - are addicted to their calling ... [they] are the ones who'd be doing whatever it is they love, even if they weren't being paid.” quote by Quincy Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6d4/quincy-jones-2731_calling_the-people-who-make-it-to-the-top-whethe_367809.jpg)
![“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 that's just like part of my DNA.” quote by Quincy Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/373/quincy-jones-2731_brass_i-got-to-trumpet-finally-that-s-why-i-lo_245935.jpg)