"I met Ray Charles at 14, and he……" — Quincy Jones
"I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me."
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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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More Charles Quotes
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Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
— Margaret Atwood
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Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens.
— Peter Ackroyd
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Harry Reid is not funny; he's creepy. Nancy Pelosi is creepy. Charles Schumer is sneaky and creepy.
— Lewis Black
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I don't see myself as a great discoverer of artists, like Charles Saatchi.
— Eli Broad
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For a long time, I'd been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth…
— Bill Bryson
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I hadn't realized quite how extraordinary Charles Lindbergh's achievement was in flying the Atlantic alone. He had never flown over…
— Bill Bryson
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I'm the first to admit that I like going to, or my memories at least of going to Clint Eastwood…
— Nicolas Cage
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Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just…
— Ray Charles
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Prince Charles is very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn't find him stiff at all.
— Madonna Ciccone
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I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane,…
— Eric Clapton
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When I was able to go to school in my early years, my third grade teacher, Ms. Harris, convinced me…
— John Henrik Clarke
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Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in…
— Maya Angelou
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