Quote by Quincy Jones
I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrang

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. – Quincy Jones

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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release. – Quincy Jones

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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

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I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table. – Elie Wiesel

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Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman wholl give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means youre in the wrong house, thats what it means. – Henny Youngman

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Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian. – E. Stanley Jones

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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home. – James Madison

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