Quincy Jones Quotes
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I don't have a type. I don't have a specific kind of human being. It's just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I've ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.
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I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.
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Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.
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I don't have anyone's number; I just Facebook them.
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I'm just a person who forgives and forgets. I have a hard time holding grudges.
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Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.
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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
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I guess I was just meant to be a secretary who doesn't take shorthand. I'm a lousy typist, too - 33 words a minute.
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I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
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I'll never retire. I'm just using up somebody else's oxygen if I retire.
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You just don't see the same type of all-purpose entertainers nowadays.
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Everybody in the South loves the one closeted homosexual who's married. It's just too funny to not have in a movie about the South. It's an epidemic. You gotta represent!
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It's just kinda what I did: played crazy old ladies.
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I have a thousands wants; it's hard to really hone in on just a few.
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Lauren Hill, I always have her solo CD nearby. I have Coldplay, Radiohead, just a mix.
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When you get your opportunities, you've just got to go with what they said... I'll do what's necessary wherever they put me.
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I'm not a downtrodden woman. I just won't be.
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Maybe I am just a jerk.
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When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.
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I go out there and train as hard as anybody else.
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We advised them to do what they think proper against the war.
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The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
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The man who can look upon a crisis without being willing to offer himself upon the altar of his country is not for public trust.
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I'm just a musician and a record producer.
