#w

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

— Quincy Jones

#europe #hampton #i #lionel #out

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 slaps your dignity just right. I loved the idea of these proud, dignified black men, and I saw the older ones wounded, and it wounded me ten times as much because I couldn't stand seeing them hurt like this. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#black #dignified #dignity #hurt #i

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

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

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