Quincy Jones Quotes
I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you're supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.
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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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I introduce her as the love of my life everywhere that we go. She introduces me as her current husband. So you can see how the relationship kinda works here.
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I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try to write something specifically for the purpose of releasing it as a single to get radio play. Those are not my best songs, as a rule.
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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Is it the right thing to burn Qurans? Legally? Can pastor burn Quran tomorrow? People accept legally it is right. But is it the right thing to do? No.
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I've got America's best writer for $300 a week.
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When I auditioned for drama college, they asked me to do my Shakespeare. I couldn't do it. They asked me to do my modern, and I couldn't do it. They asked me if I had a song prepared, and I said 'No,' so I sang 'Happy Birthday.' And I did a reasonable improvisation, a reasonable one, nothing special at all. I don't know how I got in, but I did.
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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The inventory goes down the elevator every night.
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At the lodge the chief gave me many particulars which were relative to the late visit of the Spaniards.
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It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.
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New Age is a very small box. It was a term that was brought in by the music industry to classify music that is neither jazz, classical, pop or rock. They didn't know what to call it or what to do with it. So they threw it all together under this one name.
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The Man Penal settlement. Do you know whats happening there? The murders, the starvation, the complete breakdown of law and order.
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I consider myself to be a crusader of love. I try to spread love around the world as best I can because I know I have a handle on love.
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I think the merging of high and low culture is so fascinating.
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The very fact that I became mayor in 1977 conveys how you can't figure out what the people will do. Nobody thought I would be elected. When I entered I got four percent of the vote in the first poll, four percent.
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My greatest fear is speaking in public.
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I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you're supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.
