"After I learned the piano, I went on……" — Quincy Jones
"After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, trombone, trumpet, most of the instruments in the orchestra. Trumpet was my instrument."
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86 Quotes by Quincy Jones
Quincy Jones has 86 quotes on this site.
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Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia,…
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I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, "Ain't that the truth."
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The people who make it to the top - whether they're musicians, or great chefs, or corporate honchos - are…
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I don't deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I…
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Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.
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I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the…
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It's easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just…
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It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.
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The only music I don't like is bad music.
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Editing while you're writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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I've met every freak in the business.
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After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you…
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The key of D is daffodil yellow, B major is maroon, and B flat is blue.
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A strange adventure befell me while I was playing my Sonata in B flat minor before some English friends. I…
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I never felt like that in my life. I didn't know human beings played these instruments. I heard them in…
— Quincy Jones
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You start way down on a low B flat on the tuba and you have a chromatic scale; you can…
— Gerry Mulligan
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Owls hoot in B flat, cuckoos in D, but the water ousel sings in the voice of the stream. She…
— Karen Joy Fowler
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When Rose takes to screaming, she starts loud, continues loud, and ends loud. Rose has a very good ear and…
— Franny Billingsley
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The first pair Opal and Amber are, Agate sings in B flat, the wolf avatar, A duet-solutio! - with Aquamarine.…
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