Author Profile
Quincy Jones
1933 • American • Musician
65
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Collected Meditations
Showing 65 quotesI 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.— Quincy Jones
I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.— Quincy Jones
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
We spent most of our life almost like street rats just running around the street until we were ten years old.— Quincy Jones
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
I believe that a hundred years from now, when people look back at the 20th century, they will look at Miles, Bird, Clifford Brown, Ella and Dizzy, among elders as our Mozarts, our Chopins, our Bachs and Beethovens.— Quincy Jones
China's got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain't right.— Quincy Jones
Everybody, no matter what vocation they're looking at, should add music as an essential to their curriculum. Music can be a very important part of your soul and your growth as a human being. It's so powerful.— Quincy Jones
We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don't think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.— Quincy Jones
Working with kids in Soweto in South Africa, it's rough out there. But the bottom line is you've got to go to know. In Cambodia, there are 10,000 landmines. Same in Afghanistan, same in Colombia. I'm totally addicted to traveling.— Quincy Jones
Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.— Quincy Jones
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 couldn't stand seeing them hurt like this.— Quincy Jones