Quotes By Quincy Jones
Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
Quincy Jones
My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
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
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
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 they're 25 percent each, they can give 100 percent, you know?
Quincy Jones
I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
Quincy Jones
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
China's got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain't right.
Quincy Jones