Quincy Jones

You gotta do what you love and really believe in it because that is your truth.

There’s two things you can’t live without. Water and music.

Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to come along and upset everybody.

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Don’t ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

When I am old, weather-worn, and grey, I want to fill my lungs with your perfume and hear your laughter echo through our home as we dance alone in our living room, drunk off wine, still madly in love.

It takes years to find your voice and seize your real estate.

These are our neighbours, our co-workers, friends’ children… the problem is closer than you think, but so is the solution.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.

The most you get is what you ask for.

Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.