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I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#any #been #black #black music #closer

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 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

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