Quotes by Quincy Jones about Contentment

5 quotes by Quincy Jones about contentment

Quincy Jones American musician

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.

Quote by Quincy Jones about contentment

It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you...

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

Quote by Quincy Jones about contentment

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 contentment

Just blow in it and sound bad for about a year and then make it sound a little bit better, and you get a little band together, and then you get a few jobs. You take four guys that sound half bad, but if they're 25 percent each, they can give 100...

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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.

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