Quincy Jones Quotes
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Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.
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In Yellowstone National Park, there are more 'do not feed the animals' signs than there are animals you might wish to feed.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.
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With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.
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There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
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Anything that's given to you can be taken away from you at any time.
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I love to watch 'Chopped,' 'Jeopardy,' and 'Breaking Bad.' You can't pass up that one. Oh! One other show I love to watch is 'Suburgatory.'
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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We're really going after truly creating sustainability of a disease-free state, creating a complete system for managing cancer patients for life, so that you can manage from onset of disease all the way through.
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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
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Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable.
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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
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If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.
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I'm loyal. I'm real. I'm not afraid to say what I'm thinking.
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The most important part of any acquisition is your ability to culturally integrate the people in the companies you acquire and your company.
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I go into military communities and do fundraisers and that kind of thing with the band, because I know that the music can help do a lot of things. It can bring communities together, it can raise awareness... and it entertains.
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The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.
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I think the line is where you're in the studio, you're creating. That belongs to you as an artist. Nothing should taint that. I shouldn't be thinking about what the fans want, I shouldn't be thinking about what the radio wants, what the label wants, what your manager wants, a song for the chicks, a song for the street.
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You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.
