"I believe that a hundred years from now,……" — Quincy Jones
"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 and Dizzy, among elders as our Mozarts, our Chopins, our Bachs and Beethovens."
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Quincy Jones
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86 Quotes by Quincy Jones
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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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When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid things,…
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I…
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Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the…
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