Quincy Jones Quotes

I lost my mother when I was 7 and they put her in a mental hospital. My brother and I watched her being taken away in a strait jacket. That's something you never forget. And my stepmother was like in the movie 'Precious.' I couldn't handle it. So I said to myself, 'I don't have a mother. I don't need one. I'm going to let music be my mother.'

Quincy Jones

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• I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.

  

  Walter Huston
  • Simple
  • Better
  • Voice

• I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Doing

• Unworthiness is the inmost frightening thought that you do not belong, no matter how much you want to belong, that you are an outsider and will always be an outsider. It is the idea that you are flawed and cannot be fixed. It is wanting to be loved and feeling unlovable, or wanting to love and feeling that you are not capable of loving.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Love
  • Feeling
  • Idea

• If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.

  

  Yuna
  • Morning
  • Myself
  • Cool

• I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • Money
  • Mother
  • Parents

• Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Me
  • Hell
  • Shine

• I like to go out and write. So I'll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I'll sit there and I'll write. I can write pretty much anywhere.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Pretty
  • Like
  • Coffee

• In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Best
  • Politics
  • Cards

• At times, some journalists see nothing in the people apart from an opportunity to make material gain. They see them as consumers to whom we sell commodities at huge profits that keep our bank accounts growing.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Growing

• In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Word
  • Constitution
  • Slave

• Focus on remedies, not faults.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Focus
  • Faults
  • Remedies

• To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.

  

  Patrick MacGill
  • Luck
  • Soldier
  • Skill

• I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Different
  • Long
  • Think

• I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Why
  • Nature
  • Human

• All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Music
  • Words
  • inspirational

• In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • You
  • Everything
  • Tolerance

• I'm never gonna change the skin, right? I'm very proud of what it implies and what it has meant to me... but then again, in Congress, I hope to make my mark as a colleague and as a leader.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Hope
  • Change
  • Proud

• Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • War
  • Military
  • Cuba

• Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in its entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or 13-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next Twilight movie.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Movie
  • Day
  • Library

• Right before 'The Bourne Identity' came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year.

  

  Matt Damon
  • Movie
  • Identity

• O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn’t then.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Time

• In social situations, when I'm surrounded by people, I become very shy. But if there's a camera in front of me, I feel free.

  

  Doona Bae
  • People
  • Free
  • Camera

• I don't think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.

  

  William Broad Generation X
  • Die
  • Rock
  • Attitude

• I lost my mother when I was 7 and they put her in a mental hospital. My brother and I watched her being taken away in a strait jacket. That's something you never forget. And my stepmother was like in the movie 'Precious.' I couldn't handle it. So I said to myself, 'I don't have a mother. I don't need one. I'm going to let music be my mother.'

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Movie
  • Mother