Quincy Jones Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.
-
Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
-
I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
-
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
-
I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
-
Individuals should think about the worst-case scenarios and plan for them. The world will be crazier than you think it will be. Put money away, and then you can live with much more freedom.
-
I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
-
I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best.
-
I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
-
Language does not make one an elite.
-
If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
-
In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.
-
I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
-
Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
Ford Frick -
But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
-
I got a big mouth.
-
It's the face and the body and the thing that we hide inside that can keep us from the world, but my voice is my voice.
-
I have been celibate for about six or seven months, I think. I would rather just make out and kiss someone instead of sex. I'm single. I said I would be single for a year and I am.
-
You can de-select the songs that you don't want to have on the record, but I hope we always put something out that has a lot of songs that the majority of people will love.
-
Ronald Coase, in his classic 1937 paper on 'The Nature of the Firm,' was the first to bring the concept of transaction costs to bear on the study of firm and market organization.
-
I've had enough of breakdowns and diagrams-Judging from picture books, apparently Heaven is a partly cloudy place.
-
We should welcome applause whenever it comes.
-
I've met every freak in the business.
