Quincy Jones Quotes

I live on the Internet.
I lost my mother when I was 7 and they put her in a mental hospital. My brother and I watched her being taken away in a strait jacket. That's something you never forget. And my stepmother was like in the movie 'Precious.' I couldn't handle it. So I said to myself, 'I don't have a mother. I don't need one. I'm going to let music be my mother.'
I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.
I never cared about money or fame, and I don't care now. I follow the groove, and money always follows.
I never felt like I had a mother.
I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music - gospel, blues, jazz and R&B - is the heart and soul of all popular music; and that we cannot afford to let this legacy slip into obscurity, I'm telling you.
I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
I tell my kids and I tell proteges, always have humility when you create and grace when you succeed, because it's not about you. You are a terminal for a higher power. As soon as you accept that, you can do it forever.
I think the attraction of 'American Idol' is about the basic human nature attitude that is, 'We can put you up there. But we can take you down.'
I travel like a maniac. I travel more than anyone I know. I love learning the languages.
I was married for 36 years but now I'm free.
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.
I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.
I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to know about everything.
I was the most subtle person in the world.
I'd been in love before - I was always in love.
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
I'm a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.
I'm just a musician and a record producer.
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