#mo

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. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#big #big bands #biggest #charlie #dealing

Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#defense #emotional #important #just #know

I never felt like I had a mother. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#had #i #like #mother #never

I was the most subtle person in the world. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#most #person #subtle #world

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