Quincy Jones Quotes - Page 2

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• You have to know that your real home is within.

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  Real, Self Esteem, Home

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• Michael (Jackson) was so shy, he'd sit down and sing behind the couch with his back to me while I sat with my hands over my eyes-and the lights off.

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  Eye, Light, Hands

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• It has been proven time and time again in countless studies that students who actively participate in arts education are twice as likely to read for pleasure, have strengthened problem-solving and critical thinking skills, are four times more likely to be recognized for academic achievement, four times more likely to participate in a math and science fair.

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  Art, Math, Thinking

  "Arts Education in America" by Quincy Jones, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 9, 2009.

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• The relationship with a producer and an artist is really special. It's got to be love and respect, amazing mutual respect for each other, because that's what makes a good record.

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  Artist, Special, Records

  "Quincy Jones Recalls "Freaking Out" at Michael Jackson's Death and His Private Nickname for the Star". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 11, 2015.

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• Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.

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  People, Young, Should

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• If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

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  Frozen, Liquid, Architecture

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• Editing while you're writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.

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  Baby, Writing, Editing

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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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  Years, Racism, Economics

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• What happens when you get a big break and you haven't prepared yourself? That becomes the biggest mistake you've ever made. I see it happen all the time.

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  Mistake, Break, Biggest Mistake

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• I used to practice piano for hours, and now, with a synthesizer, you can input the music and the machine perfects the song. That's why we have so many people in the music business who should be plumbers. They don't really understand music because they haven't been trained.

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  Song, People, Hours

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• I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to know about everything.

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  Philosophy, Reading, Cat

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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 didn't deserve that, either. So I'll keep it.

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  Music, Awards, Years

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• Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush

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  School, Records, Painting

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• Thank God, 50 years ago I learned that our entire business is all based on two things; a great song and a great story. Film, television, if you don't have that story, nothing else matters. You don't call anybody else or direct anybody. The same with a song. A great song can make the worst singer in the world a star.

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  Song, Stars, Years

  "Quincy Jones Recalls "Freaking Out" at Michael Jackson's Death and His Private Nickname for the Star". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 11, 2015.

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• Though negative things have happened to me, God somehow let me know that becoming bitter was not the way to go. You die when you do that. Someone once told me that if you fully open your arms to receive love, you'll get some scratches and cuts on your arms, but a lot of love will come in. If you close your arms, you might never get cut - but the good stuff won't come in either.

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  Love You, Cutting, Negative

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• Did you know you would become as successful as you have? Hell, no. But you know what? You were prepared, baby.

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  Baby, Successful, Hell

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• I improvised my life along the way - I just moved step-by-step. And I knew that if I got better, something would happen.

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  Moved

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• You want your parents to say, "Hey, I'm proud of you." When you don't hear that, you learn to compensate. You say, "Hell, I don't need their approval. If I get my music right, I'll have everyone else's approval." I didn't understand it then, but I now know that's what happened to me.

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  Parent, Proud, Hell

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• Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.

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  Idiosyncrasies

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• A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.

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  Song, Color, Should Have

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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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  Country, Soul, Language

  "Does U.S. Need A Culture Czar?". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. January 16, 2009.

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• There's power in the collective. If you don't believe me, just watch a symphony orchestra with a conductor and 120 people who are thinking about exactly the same thing at the same moment - no babies, no stock markets, no mortgages. Just 32nd notes.

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  Baby, Believe, Thinking

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

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  Art, Military, Emotional

  "Does U.S. Need A Culture Czar?". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. January 16, 2009.

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• I've met every freak in the business.

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  Freak, Mets

  "Quincy Jones says Michael Jackson didn't want to be black". Interview with Tim Henle, newsok.com. May 16, 2013.

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• All the jazz guys had interracial relationships, and even the ladies did. Over the years, interracial relationships have been a hip, almost defiant thing, a way of saying "Nobody can put a boundary around me."

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  Guy, Jazz, Boundaries

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