Best Quincy Jones Sayings
- Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important. Art
- China's got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain't right. Billion
- Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country. Country
- Everybody has their idiosyncrasies. Everybody
- I don't remember feeling love. Feeling
- I never felt like I had a mother. Felt
- I was married for 36 years but now I'm free. Free
- I was the most subtle person in the world. Inspirational
- I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe. Came
- I'd been in love before - I was always in love. Been
- I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from. Believer
- I'm a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap. Believer
- I'm just a musician and a record producer. Inspirational
- I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it. Inspirational
- Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release. All
- My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade. Earliest
- My son is a hip-hop producer. Hip
- The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious. Atrocious
- I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played… All
- I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit… All
- If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You're dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big… All
- We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had… All
- I believe that a hundred years from now, when people look back at the 20th century, they will look at Miles, Bird, Clifford Brown, Ella… Among
- Sidney Poitier and Sidney Lumet were instrumental in helping me get started as the first black composer to get name credit for movie scores. Black
- I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to know… All