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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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 started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day. – Quincy Jones

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Its amazing how much trouble you can get in when you dont have anything else to do. – Quincy Jones

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I come from pioneer stock, developers of the West, people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen. – Joni Mitchell

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When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly. – Portia de Rossi

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Just that working with Clint again is like coming home. – Morgan Freeman

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The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad. – James Madison

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