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I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#away #course #dry #everybody #get

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

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

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

My worst job was working in the laundry of a nursing home. ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#job #laundry #nursing #nursing home #working

Somehow credibility comes into play if you do things that are too familiar. ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#credibility #familiar #into #play #somehow

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

I'm not going to be able to play it like somebody else. ↗

— Sam J. Jones

#else #going #i #like #play

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#bring #find #poetry #some #unless

Now, I feel that if somebody looks through all the numbers through all those years, they will find one for Julius Rosenberg, and it is worth finding if it is such an important issue. ↗

— Julius Rosenberg

#find #finding #i #i feel #important