"I got a scholarship to Seattle University and……" — Quincy Jones
"I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home."
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Quincy Jones
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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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More Arrangements Quotes
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one of 168 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just…
— Erykah Badu
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We were an ill-matched pair, my husband and I, from the very outset; he, with very high ideas of a…
— Annie Besant
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There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra…
— Jello Biafra
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There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students…
— Anne Campbell
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If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values…
— Thomas Cochrane
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The doctrine of evolution implies the passage from the most organised to the least organised, or, in other terms, from…
— John Hughlings Jackson
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By altering his arrangements and changing his plans, the skillful general keeps the enemy without definite knowledge. By shifting his…
— Sun Tzu
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As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Natural causes, as we know, are at work, which tend to modify, if they do not at length destroy, all…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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This fundamental discovery that all bodies owe their origin to arrangements of single initial corpuscular type is the beacon that…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself…
— Milton Friedman
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Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution - paths that a sensible God would never tread but…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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