Quincy Jones

It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.

— Quincy Jones

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

It slaps your dignity just right. I loved the idea of these proud, dignified black men, and I saw the older ones…

— Quincy Jones

I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or…

— Quincy Jones

“The tragedy of Tupac is that his untimely passing is representative of too many young black men in this country....If we had…

— Quincy Jones

When you're over the hill, that's when you pick up speed.

— Quincy Jones

Imagine what a harmonious world it...

— Quincy Jones

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

— Quincy Jones

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

— Quincy Jones

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

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

— Quincy Jones

I got to trumpet, finally. That's why I love to write for brass, and [Count] Basie and [Frank] Sinatra and all that…

— Quincy Jones

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

— Quincy Jones

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

— Quincy Jones

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

— Quincy Jones

Young people should travel, and they don't. You can't know if you don't go.

— Quincy Jones

The process is the most beautiful part.

— Quincy Jones

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

You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.

— Quincy Jones

A lot of the guys were like that - Oscar Pettiford - they just took me under their wing, and that's why…

— Quincy Jones

The people who make it to the top - whether they're musicians, or great chefs, or corporate honchos - are addicted to…

— Quincy Jones

I think the attraction of 'American Idol' is about the basic human nature attitude that is, 'We can put you up there.…

— Quincy Jones

Music was the one thing I could control. It was the one world that offered me freedom. When I played music, my…

— Quincy Jones

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

— Quincy Jones

I'm a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.

— Quincy Jones