Quincy Jones

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

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.

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.

It doesn’t matter how slow you go as long as you don’t stop.

It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.

My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

Most choices are driven by immediate results.

I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.

We are entering an era when we shall create resources which shall be so constantly renewed that the only loss will be not to use them. There will be such a plenteous supply of heat, light and power, that it will be a sin not to use all we want. This era is coming now. And it is coming by way of Water.

Who we are now is all that really matters.

We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.

The most closely organized groups and movements in the world are those which have been the least friendly to the people’s progress and liberty.

Who is wise? He who learns from all men.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

The sense of injustice, more than the unjust condition itself, is what wears on men’s minds.

Some people prefer the passenger role, because it imposes no real pressure to decide or stand accountable for their life results.

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.