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Explore our hand-picked selection of 109 inspiring quotes by Quincy Jones.

About Quincy Jones

  • Born: March 14, 1933
  • Occupation: Record Producer
    • The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
    Arranging
    Eight kids and a stepmother, and i just wanted to be out of there and so when i got a scholarship from boston to the schillinger house, which is now the berklee school of music, i couldn't wait to get out of there.
    School Kids Eight
    I went with lionel hampton for three years. out of that came a trip to europe.
    Journey Years Europe
    If i don't have a mother, i'll let music be my mother.
    Mother Music Is Ifs
    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.
    Thug Color Car
    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.
    Brother Boys Chicago
    My son is a hip-hop producer.
    Son Hip Hop Hips
    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.
    Mother Father Years
    All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
    Girl Guy Want
    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.
    New York Guy Band
    My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
    Memories Fence
    I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
    Flow Believer
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