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Quincy Jones Quotes
I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home. - Quincy Jones Quotes
I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins. - Quincy Jones Quotes
I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every night club, listened to every band that came through, because in those days we didnt have MTV, we didnt have television. - Quincy Jones Quotes
I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe. - Quincy Jones Quotes
Ive always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, Aint that the truth. - Quincy Jones Quotes
If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. Youre dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle. - Quincy Jones Quotes
Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing. - Quincy Jones Quotes
It slaps your dignity just right. I loved the idea of these proud, dignified black men, and I saw the older ones wounded, and it wounded me ten times as much because I couldnt stand seeing them hurt like this. - Quincy Jones Quotes
Its amazing how much trouble you can get in when you dont have anything else to do. - Quincy Jones Quotes
Its easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play. - Quincy Jones Quotes
Just blow in it and sound bad for about a year and then make it sound a little bit better, and you get a little band together, and then you get a few jobs. You take four guys that sound half bad, but if theyre 25 percent each, they can give 100 percent, you know? - Quincy Jones Quotes
My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we werent related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store. - Quincy Jones Quotes
We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother. - Quincy Jones Quotes
We spent most of our life almost like street rats just running around the street until we were ten years old. - Quincy Jones Quotes
We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I dont think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again. - Quincy Jones Quotes
We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too. - Quincy Jones Quotes
When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out. - Quincy Jones Quotes
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