Quincy Jones Quotes

I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.
I'm not a psychiatrist.
I'm Pisces with Leo rising. The Pisces part is the dreamer. The Leo says, 'Let's execute.'
I'm probably the only one in the world you can name that's worked with Billie Holiday, Louie Armstrong, Ella, Duke, Miles, Dizzy, Ray Charles, Aretha, Michael Jackson, rappers. 'Fly Me to the Moon' was played on the moon by Buzz Aldrin. Sinatra. Paul Simon. Tony Bennett. I'm the only one.
I've met every freak in the business.
I've never been bored in my life, man. I've never been bored or lonely. Are you kidding? No way! I'm an orchestrator, a musician, a producer. I love everything. I've studied languages from Farsi to Greek to French, Swedish, Russian... How can you get bored?
Melody is king, and don't you ever forget it. Lyrics appear to be out front, but they're not; they're just an accompanying factor. If they're good, you're really in good shape. Lyrics are written to be rewritten.
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
My son is a hip-hop producer.
Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
Seattle is like a global gumbo, a melting pot with all kinds of people - the rich, the poor, white people, some Chinese, Filipino, Jewish and black people - they're all here.
Sidney Poitier and Sidney Lumet were instrumental in helping me get started as the first black composer to get name credit for movie scores.
The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.
To me it's no accident that all the symphony orchestras around the world tune up to the note A. And A is 440 cycles, except in Germany where it's 444. But the universe is 450 cycles. So what I'm trying to say is, I think it's God's voice, melody especially. Counterpoint, retrograde inversion, harmony... that's the science and the craft.
Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.
When I was 14, I would sit up in my room and write till my eyes would bleed.
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