A lot of the guys were like that - Oscar Pettiford - they just took me under their wing, and that's why I automatically help young people. I just love it, because they did that for me.
Quote by Quincy Jones about help, love, people
Quotes by Quincy Jones
26 quotes by Quincy Jones
Quincy Jones - american musician
Also called: Quincy Delightt Jones Jr..
Was born on 14 mar 1933.
Origin country: United States
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.
Quote by Quincy Jones about home, house, school, music
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.
Quote by Quincy Jones about home, writing, music
I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every night club, listened to every band that came through, because in those days we didn't have MTV,...
Quote by Quincy Jones about dance, city, television, day, night, people
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.
Quote by Quincy Jones about old, olderness, people, world, good, good luck
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.
Quote by Quincy Jones about dignity, proudness, magic, idea, rightness, man
It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.
Quote by Quincy Jones about problems
It's easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.
Quote by Quincy Jones about music, attention, good, good luck
My brother died of cancer two years ago (1998), renal cell carcinoma. He was my only real brother and I didn't know what to do. I'd never been so desperate in my life.
Quote by Quincy Jones about real estate, life
My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren't related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store.
Quote by Quincy Jones about stores, family, good, good luck
My father worked for Julian Black, the people that ran Joe Louis's life. Joe Louis lived in one of the buildings we lived in.
Quote by Quincy Jones about magic, life, people
The band was working 70 one-nighters in a row all through the south, doing 700 miles a night, with these guys that had been out there 30 years. I used to watch the old guys. I really respected their wisdom.
Quote by Quincy Jones about night, wisdom, old, olderness
