Quincy Jones Quotes

All the jazz guys had interracial relationships, and even the ladies did. Over the years, interracial relationships have been a hip, almost defiant thing, a way of saying "Nobody can put a boundary around me."

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• I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Trying
  • Think
  • Successful

• I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Party
  • Doubt
  • New Years

• Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • World
  • Men
  • Woman

• If your mom is still around, you're so lucky.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • You
  • Mom
  • Lucky

• All I wanted to do was be a working actor.

  

  Teddy Sears
  • Actor
  • Working
  • Wanted

• Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the central nervous system, brought about in my case by a viral assault on brain tissue. When the assault wiped out certain intellectual processes, it also affected emotional processes.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Brain
  • Emotional
  • Intellectual

• Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Matter
  • Egg
  • Duck

• I did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about.

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • I Can

• I am going to keep having fun every day I have left, because there is no other way of life. You just have to decide whether you are a Tigger or an Eeyore.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Day

• A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Different
  • Character
  • Song

• I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • World
  • Poetry

• I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • People
  • Positive
  • Influence

• I know what a long shot race is like, and I'm willing to put the work in.

  

  Dan Carter
  • Work
  • Long
  • Race

• In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.

  

  Samuel George Morton
  • Character
  • Present
  • Humanity

• Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Opinion
  • Same
  • Will

• Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Action
  • Military
  • Bank

• To me, success is choice and opportunity.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Success
  • Opportunity
  • Choice

• Granted, I've changed internally as I've gotten older - I take it easy, I know when to stop and take care of myself, I laugh much more and with my belly and soul - but this comes from the confidence and acceptance that comes with maturity.

  

  Iman
  • Soul
  • Stop
  • Myself

• You don't have to let a bad experience stop you from doing what you want to do.

  

  Nell Scovell
  • Experience
  • Bad
  • Stop

• I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Power
  • Respect
  • Care

• The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Power

• I always thought when I hit 50 years old that'd be it for the travel. I don't have to tell you - you wait at an airport, your flight's delayed, get on a 14-hour flight, get off, get stuck in traffic, you get to the hotel and the room service is closed.

  

  Brian Setzer Stray Cats
  • Travel
  • Service

• I feel like I've paid a really heavy cost, a really heavy physical health cost, for the years of touring and how physical I've been onstage.

  

  James Edward Olliges Jr.
  • Health

• All the jazz guys had interracial relationships, and even the ladies did. Over the years, interracial relationships have been a hip, almost defiant thing, a way of saying "Nobody can put a boundary around me."

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Guy
  • Jazz
  • Boundaries