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
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 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
It's very freaky in Chicago.There's something in the water there, I don't know what it is. But the actual word Chicago means,… — 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'm probably the only one in the world you can name that's worked with Billie Holiday, Louie Armstrong, Ella, Duke, Miles, Dizzy,… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Bebop and hip-hop, in so many ways, they're connected. A lot of rappers remind me so much of bebop guys in terms… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
To me it's no accident that all the symphony orchestras around the world tune up to the note A. And A is… — 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
A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that's the bottom line. — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
Communications are making this one world. Back in the day, 400-500 years ago, nobody knew what anyone else was doing. It's on… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You're dealing with Charlie Parker and… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
Im probably the only one in the world you can name thats worked with Billie Holiday, Louie Armstrong, Ella, Duke, Miles, Dizzy,… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
Prince.. a true artist in every sense of the world.Gone way too soon. — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
There’s nothing in the world worse than having an opportunity that you’re not prepared for. Good luck usually follows the collision of… — 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
