Quincy Jones Quotes About Music

Quotes about: Music

• You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.

  Quincy Jones

  Music, Study, Harmony

  "Grammy Legend Award". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 28, 2000.

• Jazz has the power to make men forget their differences and come together... Jazz is the personification of transforming overwhelmingly negative circumstances into freedom, friendship, hope, and dignity.

  Quincy Jones

  Music, Men, Differences

• Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.

  Quincy Jones

  Love, Family, Happiness

• Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to come along and upset everybody.

  Quincy Jones

  Music, Kids, Upset

• 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.

  Quincy Jones

  Music, Awards, Years

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin