#ow

After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it's worse than ever. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#back #change #come #country #ever

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 was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every night club, listened to every band that came through, because in those days we didn't have MTV, we didn't have television. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#because #came #club #dance #days

I was married for 36 years but now I'm free. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#i #married #now #years

It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#anything #else #get #how #much

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

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

You can't break the rules until you know how to play the game. ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#game #how #know #play #rules

We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#charge #chicago #could #crime #ever