Song Quotes by Quincy Jones

16 Song quotes by Quincy Jones

Quincy Jones’s sixteen song thoughts weave together his legendary production acumen and a love for melody. He offers a behind‑the‑scenes feel, sharing how a song’s structure can become a timeless groove.

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A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.

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If I don't have a mother, I'll let music be my mother.

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I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.

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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

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

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When you produce an album, you're dealing with it theatrically. It has to have a structure, and the inner response to that…

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You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.

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

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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…

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A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top…

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Jazz has the power to make men forget their differences and come together... Jazz is the personification of transforming overwhelmingly negative circumstances…

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Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939…

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

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Thank God, 50 years ago I learned that our entire business is all based on two things; a great song and a…

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To me it's no accident that all the symphony orchestras around the world tune up to the note A. And A is…

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I didn't understand key signatures or anything, you know. I'd say silly things at the top of a trumpet part like, 'Note,…

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Sidney Poitier and Sidney Lumet were instrumental in helping me get started as the first black composer to get name credit for movie scores.

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A person's age can be determined by the degree of pain he experiences when he comes in contact with a new idea.

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

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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…

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

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I look back and say, "This must have been somebody else." I am not going to tell you that when I was 4, I…

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I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to…

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