Quincy Jones
Quincy Jones
Quincy Delightt Jones, Jr., also known as "Q", is an American record producer, conductor, arranger, composer, musician, television producer, film producer, instrumentalist, magazine founder, entertainment company executive, and humanitarian. His career spans six decades in the entertainment industry and a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 28 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend Award in 1991...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusic Producer
Date of Birth14 March 1933
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.
I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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.
Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to come along and upset everybody.
When you're over the hill, that's when you pick up speed.
A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
I go to the favelas in Brazil. It's the same in the South Side of Chicago. It's the same, or just more violent. We're trying to get them to stop selling dope. You see kids with AK-47s, and nine-year-olds with nine millimeters. You know, they don't play. They make us look like nuns.
It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.
I'm a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.
It's the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear.
My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
Prince.. a true artist in every sense of the world.Gone way too soon.