#ear

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 percent, you know? ↗

— Quincy Jones

#bad #band #better #bit #blow

My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#earliest #earliest memories #fence #memories #pinned

I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if you say 'I'm a new person.' ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#because #diminishes #get #growing #i

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

— Quincy Jones

#around #just #life #like #most

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. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#father #figure #five #had #hard

You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#good #how #learn #make #mistakes

The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast. ↗

— Clarence Budington Kelland

#brilliant #contrast #dull #duty #speakers

A company is stronger if it is bound by love rather than by fear. ↗

— Herb Kelleher

#company #fear #love #rather #stronger

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart. ↗