#out

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

I had started losing weight. I mean he didn't know anything about the journey that I was on at that point obviously but from my highest weight of just over 300 pounds I lost about 45 pounds. ↗

— Star Jones

#anything #had #highest #i #journey

I realized that in those nine seasons I started out at about 225 pounds and I felt, you know, full figured fabulous woman but in those seasons I gained 75 pounds up to over 300 pounds all in front of the nation. ↗

— Star Jones

#fabulous #felt #figured #front #full

Oh, definitely and you know you take the bitter with the sweet but the benefits far outweigh the burdens of what I've been able to do for my family, my word. ↗

— Star Jones

#been #benefits #bitter #burdens #definitely

Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight. ↗

— Star Jones

#because #call #chicken #chubby #i

If you want to know about my politics, the only way to do that is to look at my work. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#know #look #only #politics #want