Quotes by Quincy Jones

"It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do."

"Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.'"

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

"If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture."

"Bebop and hip-hop, in so many ways, they're connected. A lot of rappers remind me so much of bebop guys in terms of improvisation, beats and rhymes. My dream is to see hip-hop incorporated in education. You've got the youth of the world in the palm of your hand."

"Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release."

"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."

"Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk of 'the dozens.'"