#out

When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about Texas. ↗

— Norah Jones

#back #cause #country #country music #fell

You know, when you have a father who's pretty well known but you don't see him, the last thing you want to do is start talking about him all the time to people. ↗

— Norah Jones

#father #him #know #known #last

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

— Quincy Jones

#europe #hampton #i #lionel #out

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

Just blow in it and sound bad for about a year and then make it sound a little bit better, and you get a little band together, and then you get a few jobs. You take four guys that sound half bad, but if they're 25 percent each, they can give 100 percent, you know? ↗

— Quincy Jones

#bad #band #better #bit #blow

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

— Quincy Jones

#movies #music #release #tension

I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if you say 'I'm a new person.' ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#because #diminishes #get #growing #i

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

In my opinion, the Republican Party is the last on the list to care about the needs of old people and children and poor people. ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#care #children #in my opinion #last #list