Quote by Quincy Jones
If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys

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

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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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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. Thats the soul of a country. – 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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Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him. – Aldous Leonard Huxley, Texts and Pretexts, 1932

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