Quincy Jones Quotes

• I was married for 36 years but now I’m free.

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• I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.

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• I never felt like I had a mother.

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• I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we’ve had in a long time. It’s sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.

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• I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.

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• Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.

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• Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. ‘Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it’s done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.’

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• Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That’s the soul of a country.

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• China’s got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain’t right.

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• Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.

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• All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.

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• After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it’s worse than ever.

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• A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer – you put a great song on top of that, you’re really in great shape!

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• When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.

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• We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block – it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America – every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too.

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• We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don’t think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.

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• We spent most of our life almost like street rats just running around the street until we were ten years old.

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• We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.

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• My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren’t related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store.

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• Just blow in it and sound bad for about a year and then make it sound a little bit better, and you get a little band together, and then you get a few jobs. You take four guys that sound half bad, but if they’re 25 percent each, they can give 100 percent, you know?

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Birth:	14th March, 1933
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Composer, Producer, Music Conductor

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