Quincy Jones Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

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

“I'm a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.”

“Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.”

“My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.”

“We spent most of our life almost like street rats just running around the street until we were ten years old.”

“When you produce an album, you're dealing with it theatrically. It has to have a structure, and the inner response to that is that the ear loves it.”

“You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.”

“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.”

“Bebop and hip-hop, in so many ways, they're connected. A lot of rappers remind me so much of bebop guys in terms of improvisation, beats and rhymes. My dream is to see hip-hop incorporated in education. You've got the youth of the world in the palm of your hand.”

“If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You're dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle.”