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I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins.

Quote by Quincy Jones about school, things

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

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

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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 experience, contentment, world

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 was messed up, because in 1947 my family moved to Seattle and I had to get up at 5:00 o'clock in the morning to catch the ferry back to Bremerton every morning because I was Boys Club president.

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

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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, 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...

Quote by Quincy Jones about bad luck, bad, contentment

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

Some summers my father would take us down to visit our grandmother in Louisville, who was an ex-slave, Susan Jones, and she had a shotgun shack they call it, and no electricity, a well in the back, a coal stove, kerosene lamps.

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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

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, contentment

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.

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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