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Michael (Jackson) was so shy, he'd sit down and sing behind the couch with his back to me while I sat with my hands over my eyes-and the lights off. — Quincy Jones

You have to know that your real home is within. — Quincy Jones

You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God. — Quincy Jones

I'm Pisces with Leo rising. The Pisces part is the dreamer. The Leo says, 'Let's execute.' — Quincy Jones

The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging. — Quincy Jones

Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important. — Quincy Jones

When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident. — Quincy Jones

I don't deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn't deserve that, either. So I'll keep it. — Quincy Jones

I never cared about money or fame, and I don't care now. I follow the groove, and money always follows. — 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

I live on the Internet. — Quincy Jones

I'm a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap. — Quincy Jones

I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you're supposed to listen twice as much as you talk. — Quincy Jones

A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that's the bottom line. — Quincy Jones

I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe. — Quincy Jones

Imagine what a harmonious world it ... — Quincy Jones

It's the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear. — Quincy Jones

The process is the most beautiful part. — Quincy Jones

I never felt like I had a mother. — Quincy Jones

Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra. — Quincy Jones

I'm just a musician and a record producer. — Quincy Jones

If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture. — Quincy Jones

I travel like a maniac. I travel more than anyone I know. I love learning the languages. — Quincy Jones

I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the machine; the machine works for you.' — Quincy Jones

I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, "Ain't that the truth." — Quincy Jones

You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F. — Quincy Jones

My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade. — Quincy Jones

The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious. — Quincy Jones

Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable. — 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

Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind. — Quincy Jones

Excellence isn't an act, it's a habit — Quincy Jones

It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do. — Quincy Jones

You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff. — Quincy Jones

I've met every freak in the business. — Quincy Jones

If I don't have a mother, I'll let music be my mother. — 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

My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door. — Quincy Jones

I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me. — Quincy Jones

I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today. — Wyclef Jean

I don't ever want to grow up. That's boring. — Quincy Jones

Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers. — Quincy Jones

When I was 14, I would sit up in my room and write till my eyes would bleed. — Quincy Jones

When you're over the hill, that's when you pick up speed. — Quincy Jones

Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush — Quincy Jones

Everybody has their idiosyncrasies. — Quincy Jones

Prince.. a true artist in every sense of the world.Gone way too soon. — Quincy Jones

Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release. — Quincy Jones

I'm not a psychiatrist. — Quincy Jones

I like all music. The only music I don't like is bad music. — Quincy Jones

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing. — 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 think the attraction of 'American Idol' is about the basic human nature attitude that is, 'We can put you up there. But we can take you down.' — Quincy Jones

Let's not get too full of ourselves. Let's leave space for God to come into the room. — Quincy Jones

I'd been in love before - I was always in love. — Quincy Jones

I believe in astrology as much as I do in genetics. — Quincy Jones

I was the most subtle person in the world. — Quincy Jones

Young people should travel, and they don't. You can't know if you don't go. — Quincy Jones

My son is a hip-hop producer. — Quincy Jones

Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me. — Quincy Jones

Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country. — Quincy Jones

Editing while you're writing is like strangling the baby in the crib. — Quincy Jones

I don't remember feeling love. — Quincy Jones

I hope that on my tombstone it says 'Born 1933, died 2043.' I hope that's my legacy. — Quincy Jones

Sidney Poitier and Sidney Lumet were instrumental in helping me get started as the first black composer to get name credit for movie scores. — Quincy Jones

I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know. — Quincy Jones

I was married for 36 years but now I'm free. — Quincy Jones

A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape! — 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

A person's age can be determined by the degree of pain he experiences when he comes in contact with a new idea. — Quincy Jones

Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to come along and upset everybody. — Quincy Jones

I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from. — Quincy Jones

A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose. — Quincy Jones

I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it. — Quincy Jones

Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk of 'the dozens.' — Quincy Jones

All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls. — Quincy Jones

When you produce an album, you're dealing with it theatrically. It has to have a structure, and the inner response to that is that the ear loves it. — Quincy Jones