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Quincy Jones Quotes

After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, trombone, trumpet, most of the instruments in the orchestra. Trumpet was my instrument.

Quincy Jones

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Learn Orchestra Trumpet Piano Most

I am a blogger - that is an amazing thing for me, because it captures a moment in time every day.

Mena Grabowski Trott

Time Moment Day I Am Amazing Me

When our forbears - yours and mine - came to America, they came because this country promised them something. It promised them an opportunity, nourished by education, not merely to grind for a bare living, but to strive for a good life.

Robert Kennedy

Life Education Good Opportunity

We know from research that the reading circuit is not given to human beings through a genetic blueprint like vision or language; it needs an environment to develop. Further, it will adapt to that environment's requirements - from different writing systems to the characteristics of whatever medium is used.

Maryanne Wolf

Vision Research Writing Reading Know

Once 9/11 happened, people who looked like me and whose children looked like us and whose husbands looked of a community, really were made to feel quite the other, and I thought that was impossible in a city like New York but I myself was witness to that.

Mira Nair

Community Children Myself New York

When I'm doing interviews, I'm doing interviews, and when I am writing, I'm writing. I sit there with a musician and I write. It's the same process since I started writing in my twenties. I like to come in and leave with a finished song.

Lisa Marie Presley

I Am Writing Song Process Doing Sit

Our job as a government is to start with the great underpinnings of our current economic growth - particularly defence and mining - and build on these.

Jay Weatherill

Growth Great Job Government Start

I know what I have to do and I plan to do it. It's a good time to get it done and get it behind me. It's treatable, so why not treat it now? My family will give me comfort but I have to do this alone.

Don Baylor

Family Good Alone Time Me Treat

I'll photograph weddings, friends - I'm not too good for anything.

Douglas Kirkland

Good Friends Photograph Anything Too

Bill Murray doesn't do anything. He barely shows up at the movies he says he's going to do.

Denis Leary

Movies Up Anything Going He Says

I believe in justice, and I believe in people being held responsible for their actions.

Bruce Willis

Justice People Believe I Believe

What I've realised is that when I walk into a club, I don't feel good, I feel uncomfortable. I wonder what to do, I look for my drink... it's not necessarily an enjoyable experience, so why would I put myself through that?

Shiloh Fernandez

Good Myself Experience Walk Look

I needed to build a product that got people back to working out.

Payal Kadakia

People Back Product Build Out Got