Blue Quote by Quincy Jones Download Open image “Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.” — Quincy Jones ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Blue Boss
It took me three weeks to write the 'Rhapsody in Blue.' I had always wanted to write something blue and Paul Whiteman inspired. — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
I loved the title of 'Blue in Green' - as if the color blue was seeping into green, slowly changing it and creating a… — Philip Bailey Copy Share Image
“... paint in blue and black...sometimes gray - the colors of night - occasionally I surprise you with a mustard yellow, but then, I… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
B.B. King will be remembered for his impressive skills on the guitar, that King defined the blue genre. — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
My template for most songs is 'Is this inspiring?' and with the blues it so often is. — Mick Fleetwood Copy Share Image
“Seldom was blue for blue's sake present till Pollock hurled pigment at his canvas like pies.” — William H. Gass 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
It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If you're white and you're wrong, then you're wrong; if you're black and you're wrong, you're wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green… — Bob Marley Copy Share Image
Memory revises me. Even now a letter comes from a place I don’t know, from someone with my name and postmarked years ago, while… — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
Human beings should stick together. Honestly, if I see a red-haired person with blue eyes now, I say, 'Is your granny black?' — Grace Jones Copy Share Image
The Louvre! The Louvre has me in its clutches. Every time I'm there rich blessings rain down upon me. I am coming to understand… — Paula Modersohn-Becker Copy Share Image
We live in a state with a wonderful climate and plenty of natural beauty, from the shores of Cumberland Island to the Chattahoochee River… — Roy Barnes Copy Share Image
I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life, often after… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
You know, I'm the only one in this family who has no problems, . . . And you know why? Because any time I'm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
it'll be this kind of deep blue”she said. “The kind of color that somehow sucks your eyes and your ears and all your words… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
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