List of Quincy Jones Quotes

The Act Of Multitrack Recording Is The Act Of 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.

I Went With Lionel Hampton For Three Years. Out Of That Came A Trip To Europe.

If I Don't Have A Mother, I'll Let Music Be My Mother.

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.

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.

My Son Is A Hip-hop Producer.

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.

All Guys Get Into Music Because They Love Music And They Also Want To Get The Girls.

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.

My Earliest Memories Are Being Pinned To A Fence With A Switchblade.

I'm A Great Believer In Letting Lyrics Just Flow Out, Wherever They Come From.