"When I was 14, I would sit up……" — Quincy Jones
"When I was 14, I would sit up in my room and write till my eyes would bleed."
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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 Bleed Quotes
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From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any…
— Isaac Asimov
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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
— Honore de Balzac
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In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace of authentic spirituality is…
— Aberjhani
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So loud was the wailing of the women and children that there was not one man among us whose heart…
— Hernando Cortes
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You live, you learn, you love, you learn, you cry, you learn, you lose, you learn, you bleed, you learn,…
— Alanis Morissette
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You gonna do somethin'? or are you just gonna stand there and bleed?
— Wyatt Earp
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A man strikes you, make him bleed. He makes you bleed, you break his bones. He breaks your bones, kill…
— Bruce Lee
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If you keep picking a scab it will bleed and never heal. If you keep dragging the pain of the…
— Leon Brown
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Sweat more during peace: bleed less during war
— Sun Tzu
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I ain't got time to bleed.
— Jesse Ventura
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For exactly the same reason, it is sometimes satisfying to cut yourself and bleed. On those gray [sic] days where…
— Augusten Burroughs
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It's just I might get distracted, and I get lost kind of easily, and sometimes I have really bad days...when,…
— Neil Gaiman
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