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I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#could #day #different #different world #family

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, we didn't have television. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#because #came #club #dance #days

I was married for 36 years but now I'm free. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#i #married #now #years

I was the most subtle person in the world. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#most #person #subtle #world

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

— Quincy Jones

#europe #hampton #i #lionel #out

I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#i #life #my life #myself #need

I've met every freak in the business. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#every #freak #i #met

If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#frozen #liquid #music #must #then

I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies. ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#bodies #distant #feel #i #imagine

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