#mo

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

Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#movies #music #release #tension

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

— Quincy Jones

#earliest #earliest memories #fence #memories #pinned

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

For the most part, people use God as Santa Claus. ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#god #most #part #people #santa

I'm respected, I'm still working, what more could I ask? ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#could #i #more #respected #still

In any case, fighting will not settle whether the claims were just or unjust. It will only settle which nation can mobilize and handle its fighting forces and its economic forces the better. ↗

— Rufus Jones

#better #case #claims #economic #economic forces

The discoloration is very minimal. I have not turned blue. The extent of skin discoloration is not even remotely near what the news media are saying. It is barely noticeable. ↗

— Stan Jones

#blue #even #extent #i #media

Barbara did the selecting and that's probably the most brilliant thing was she put together a group of women, different backgrounds, different experiences. ↗

— Star Jones

#barbara #brilliant #did #different #different backgrounds