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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. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#black #dignified #dignity #hurt #i

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

You can't break the rules until you know how to play the game. ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#game #how #know #play #rules

If the English want a king, it is their business. If the Russians want communism, it is their business. If the Americans want our form of government, it is our business. ↗

— Julius Rosenberg

#communism #english #form #government #king

The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#black #business #climate #entertainment #entertainment business

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

I always felt like my future was at stake every time I stepped on stage and that was kind of hair-raising. At some point I just went, don't be frightened, you can't do anything wrong, it's your show. ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#anything #every #every time #felt #frightened

I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live. ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#enjoy #i #live #making #music