"The climate in the '50s and '60s for……" — Quincy Jones
"The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious."
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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 Atrocious Quotes
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His [Calvin's] religion was demonism. If ever man worshiped a false God, he did. The being described in his five…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Slavery is ...an atrocious debasement of human nature.
— Benjamin Franklin
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The footing was really atrocious. I loved it. I really like Cross Country; you're one with the mud.
— Lynn Jennings
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The great error of nearly all studies of war, an error into which all socialists have fallen, has been to…
— Simone Weil
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The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is…
— Frank Moore Colby
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I know what's like to be young and have atrocious spelling, spelling words all backwards, mixing up numbers, addresses. and…
— Ashley Scott
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The Black Parade only has two songs left. Then you'll have to deal with the likes of My Chemical Romance.…
— Gerard Way
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If some glorious angel suddenly descended through my living room ceiling and offered to take away the children I have…
— Andrew Solomon
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For the fetus, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and it is a…
— John Calvin
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Since the events of September 11, weve rightfully changed our military strategy so were now taking the fight to those…
— Jim Gerlach
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Their coverage on the Fox News Channel has been atrocious. The stuff that comes out of Sean Hannity's mouth has…
— David Shuster
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