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Years Quotes by Quincy Jones
- I don't deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn't deserve that, either. So…
- When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
- 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…
- I was married for 36 years but now I'm free.
- I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.
- 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…
- I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.
- We spent most of our life almost like street rats just running around the street until we were ten years old.
More Years Quotes
- I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes. — Dario Argento
- Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of the Philippines.… — Benigno Aquino III
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour
- I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put… — Lance Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next… — Neil Armstrong
- I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude. — Desi Arnaz