Quincy Jones Quotes
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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I like all music. The only music I don't like is bad music.
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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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I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the machine; the machine works for you.'
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My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
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I'm a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.
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I'm just a musician and a record producer.
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I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.
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It slaps your dignity just right. I loved the idea of these proud, dignified black men, and I saw the older ones wounded, and it wounded me ten times as much because I couldn't stand seeing them hurt like this.
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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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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything.
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.
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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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Working with kids in Soweto in South Africa, it's rough out there. But the bottom line is you've got to go to know. In Cambodia, there are 10,000 landmines. Same in Afghanistan, same in Colombia. I'm totally addicted to traveling.
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When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.
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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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I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins.
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I believe in astrology as much as I do in genetics.
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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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You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.
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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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Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk of 'the dozens.'