Bus Quote by Quincy Jones Download Open image “Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush” — Quincy Jones ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bus Painting Records School School bus Toothbrushes
In a way records are like paintings. Instead of using paints and brushes we use sounds and instruments. — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Even if we didn't make records, we would have done it on the side for fun. Like, some painters sell their work; others just… — Gza Copy Share Image
I think it's all about making records when you're inspired to make them. — Jack Antonoff Copy Share Image
When we make records, it's hard to pinpoint one thing that inspires a record. It's usually a number of different things that lead to… — Brandon Boyd Copy Share Image
I know what it takes to put a record together, so I'm not looking for people to come in and shape it. — Travis Tritt 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
“You go into extinction by being obsessed about becoming something else and then travelling in the wrong car while your real self keeps waiting… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I only started driving lessons because of comedy - before that, there's be no need. There was a bus from where I lived to… — Sarah Millican Copy Share Image
I've been so lucky with the people I've worked with, but I'm such a fan girl. When I moved to London at 16, I… — Sheridan Smith Copy Share Image
When I came back, after all those stories about Hitler and his snub, I came back to my native country, and I could not… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
No-deal Brexit could be Boris Johnson's biggest deception yet - worse than the Boris bus or the lies that had him sacked as a… — Ed Davey Copy Share Image
I'm very proud of being Italian-American, but people don't realize that the mafia is just this aberration. The real community is built on the working man, the guy who's the cop, the fireman, the truck driver, the bus driver. — Chazz Palminteri Copy Share
The idea of photography as evidence is pure bullshit. A photo is no more proof of any reality than what you may hear being… — Marc Riboud Copy Share Image
I don't think anything happens without the press, one way or the other. I think it's all done for it. You saw it start,… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
And the flavor of Pippa's kiss--bittersweet and strange--stayed with me all the way back uptown, swaying and sleepy as I sailed home on the… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Our bodies penetrate the sofas upon which we sit and the sofas penetrate our bodies. The motorbus rushes into the houses which it passes,… — Umberto Boccioni Copy Share Image
Back in the day, when we'd get into a town, I would go in the phone book and look up record stores. Then I'd… — Fred Schneider Copy Share Image