Quincy Jones

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.

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, young and old shared just a little of what he is good at doing.

The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.

Think about all of the times, situations, and circumstances where you have gotten caught up in making your self right rather than happy… The harder you fight to win, the bigger you lose.

It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.

An artist is always alone if he is an artist. What the artist needs is loneliness.

Teach children not to be gullible.

There is no man living who isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.

It’s not the time to look for excuses.

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

People create their own experiences.

There are ships sailing to my ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.

We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.

Many unkind people have done kind things. Doing acts of kindness is not the same as occupying kindness, of being kindness.

If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake.

Who we are now is all that really matters.

We lift ourselves by our thoughts. We climb upon our vision of ourselves.