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 weren't related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store. Quincy Jones Family 163
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release. Quincy Jones Movies 108
I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe. Quincy Jones Uncategorized 88
I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs. Quincy Jones car 84
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 Uncategorized 84
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 Home 82
You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff. Quincy Jones Uncategorized 79
After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it's worse than ever. Quincy Jones Change 79
The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious. Quincy Jones Business 78
If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You're dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle. Quincy Jones Experience 70
I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day. Quincy Jones Society 66
My grandmother had this high-tech security system – a rusty nail she used to lock the door. Quincy Jones Uncategorized 63
I've met every freak in the business. Quincy Jones Business 54
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 America 52
When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident. Quincy Jones Uncategorized 50
My son is a hip-hop producer. Quincy Jones Uncategorized 49
My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade. Quincy Jones Uncategorized 47
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 Mother 45
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 Help 43
Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important. Quincy Jones Uncategorized 41
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture. Quincy Jones architecture 39
Â I was the most subtle person in the world. Quincy Jones Uncategorized 38
Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable. Quincy Jones Uncategorized 38
Everybody has their idiosyncrasies. Quincy Jones Uncategorized 35
I never felt like I had a mother. Quincy Jones Uncategorized 35
Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country. Quincy Jones Food 33
I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is. Quincy Jones Uncategorized 30
We spent most of our life almost like street rats just running around the street until we were ten years old. Quincy Jones Life 30
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 Uncategorized 29
All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls. Quincy Jones Uncategorized 29
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 Uncategorized 26

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