Quincy Jones Quotes
Bebop and hip-hop, in so many ways, they're connected. A lot of rappers remind me so much of bebop guys in terms of improvisation, beats and rhymes. My dream is to see hip-hop incorporated in education. You've got the youth of the world in the palm of your hand.
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Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.
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I'm a big foodie and would love to indulge in such things. I've been to many restaurants in the city, and although I can't eat often, I know what's available where.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
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I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.
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Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.
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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
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'We know who the chicken hawks are. They talk tough on national defense and military issues and cast aspersions on others,' he said. 'When it was their turn to serve where were they? AWOL, that's where they were...the lead chickenhawk against Sen. Kerry is the vice president of the United States, Vice President Cheney.
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Criminals were coming to Chechnya from all over the world - they did not have a place in their own countries. But they could live perfectly well in Chechnya.
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We can celebrate how far we've come from our sexist past when women and men are equally represented in the pages of science fiction anthologies.
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If art can be at the service of anything, it's about letting us see a state of grace for those people who rarely get to be able to be seen that way.
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There are people today who look to fear to take us out of fear. But I believe that there are many, many more people who would look to love.
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Bebop and hip-hop, in so many ways, they're connected. A lot of rappers remind me so much of bebop guys in terms of improvisation, beats and rhymes. My dream is to see hip-hop incorporated in education. You've got the youth of the world in the palm of your hand.
