#or

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

China's got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain't right. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#china #got #hit #hit record #know

I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#around #band #bricks #came #choir

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 raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#car #chicago #colors #detroit #gangster

I was the most subtle person in the world. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#most #person #subtle #world

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 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's easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#attention #between #classes #ear #easy