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
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture. – Quincy Jones
If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. Youre dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle. – Quincy Jones
Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. Thats the soul of a country. – Quincy Jones
I was turning 20 during my first record. Those decade birthdays always kind of cause me, it seems, to reflect, look back, and then look forward. I just was closing this period of my life where I was living in a car and scrambling my whole life to then signing a six-record deal with Atlantic. – Jewel