Best Quincy Jones Quotes
- You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff Good
- When you're over the hill, that's when you pick up speed. Hill
- The relationship with a producer and an artist is really special.It's got to be love and respect, amazing mutual respect for each other, because that's… Amazing
- 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, in the Indian… Actual
- My daddy was a carpenter that worked with the Jones boys, who are the most notorious in America. The black gangsters, you know, they were… All
- I go to the favelas in Brazil. It's the same in the South Side of Chicago. It's the same, or just more violent. We're trying… Brazil
- If I don't have a mother, I'll let music be my mother. Inspirational
- I never felt like that in my life. I didn't know human beings played these instruments. I heard them in Chicago and Louisville and St.… All
- 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… All
- Thank God, 50 years ago I learned that a great song, our entire business is all based on two things; a great song and a… Ago
- A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that's the bottom line. Bad
- Empty the cup every time and it comes back at twice as full. I developed that attitude when I was very, very young, when I… Anybody
- I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you're supposed to listen twice as much as you talk. Early
- Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at… Both
- Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great… All
- We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in… America
- If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture. Architecture
- I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day. Belong
- All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls. All
- I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is. Disguise
- My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door. Door
- Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable. Game
- I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I… Arrangements
- We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don't think… Box
- A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're… Good