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Quincy Jones Quotes

I've met every freak in the business.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: March 14, 1933

Topics

Business Freak Every Met

Yes, alas, I've been on some recording sessions where the music wasn't good. Not so many, really, considering how many I've done. It's a very awkward situation because to do a recording well you focus on the positive of what will make the piece better.

Positive Good Music Focus Better

Many take the roles home with them and live the part. I'm quite happy to leave mine at the studio and return home as I left: simple old Roger Moore.

Home Live Simple Happy Old Leave

You do not have to do everything disagreeable that you have a right to do.

You Right Everything Disagreeable

Happiness for me is the people whom you love, love you back.

Love Happiness People Me You Back

The thing that happened with the music business, there are no stores anymore where you can buy music. It's all an online business now, and that's, you know - the bookstore culture is a very vibrant part of the American experience that we're very reluctant to see go away.

Jonathan Galassi

Business Music Culture Experience Go

I got interested in the American culture war back in 2004, and it's one of the only growth stocks I've ever invested in.

Growth Culture War American Back

When you're not good, and you are losing, and a team puts 50 on you, you gotta figure something out.

Chris Harris, Jr.

Good Losing Team You Out Something

I learned the hard way how desperately primitive is the technology we have for monitoring the health of someone with a chronic illness.

Technology Health Someone Way Hard

That didn't happen. Still, I had six pretty good years and one where I didn't reach what I wanted for myself or the club. I don't accept that makes you a bad manager or a poor coach. If that is the view I strongly disagree with it.

Good Myself Reach View You Bad

I think that the cinema is a physical thing. What I'm looking for is creating a physical shock with the audience. I don't care of the meaning. I don't care of the idea. I don't want to say something. I want to make a 'shock physique.'

Looking Think Care Meaning Cinema

My thing is, once you start to put a backbeat on your music or something that has a machine in it, you have popularity, but you lose the flexibility. And you lose a richness.

Wynton Marsalis

Music Start You Lose Flexibility

Yeah, me and Q-Tip is cool outside of the business, but you know, within the business sometimes it can get ugly, you know what I mean?

Business Ugly Me Cool You Sometimes

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