Quincy Jones Quotes

It's very freaky in Chicago.There's something in the water there, I don't know what it is. But the actual word Chicago means, in the Indian language, garlic. It was just garlic and mosquitoes there. And that is the roughest city on the planet, and I been to every place in the world.

Quincy Jones

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  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • City
  • Water