Quincy Jones Quotes
I improvised my life along the way - I just moved step-by-step. And I knew that if I got better, something would happen.
Quotes to Explore
-
Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
-
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
-
A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.
-
When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.
-
But I think we need the international market.
-
A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this is more than the words to rhymes.
-
Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
-
I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.
-
The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.
-
People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
-
I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson - character actresses who have something to say. I also said that I loved Madeline Kahn and Jessica Lange.
-
Steve Jobs changed my life. He also changed the life of every designer.
-
For some, being involved in a scene is a great thing because the social element can drive creativity. For me, though, it's never really been like that. It's the opposite. I've always had this instinct to escape.
-
Cussing ain't for everybody.
-
I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
-
Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
-
You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
-
If there are no other wonderful roles that come my way, I have a quite an interesting, dynamic life.
-
When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard.
-
I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.
-
How shall I describe Youth, the time of contradictions and anomalies? The fiercest radicalisms, the most dogged conservatisms, irrepressible gayety, bitter melancholy,-all these moods are equally part of that showery spring-time of life.
-
And every time I scratch my nails down someone else's back I hope you feel it.
-
If a film doesn't play, people aren't going to be that nice.
-
I improvised my life along the way - I just moved step-by-step. And I knew that if I got better, something would happen.
