Quotes by Quincy Jones, page 2

Quincy Jones - american musician

Also called: Quincy Delightt Jones Jr..

Was born on 14 mar 1933.

Origin country: United States

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.

Quote by Quincy Jones about stores, problems, crime, criminals

We spent most of our life almost like street rats just running around the street until we were ten years old.

Quote by Quincy Jones about tragedy, old, olderness, life

We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don't think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.

Quote by Quincy Jones about time

We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too.

Quote by Quincy Jones about magic, depression, heart

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.

Quote by Quincy Jones about mother, old, olderness, things

While I was in Boston, sure enough this lady, Janet Thurlow, who was in the Lionel Hampton band, kept reminding them of me, and they called me one day and I was so happy.

Quote by Quincy Jones about happiness, day