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
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 found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is. — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
I go to the favelas in Brazil. It's the same in the South Side of Chicago. It's the same, or just more… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with… — 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
My brother died of cancer two years ago (1998), renal cell carcinoma. He was my only real brother and I didn't know… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
I believe that a hundred years from now, when people look back at the 20th century, they will look at Miles, Bird,… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box.… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
My daddy was a carpenter that worked with the Jones boys, who are the most notorious in America. The black gangsters, you… — 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
I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe. — 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
