196 Quotes by Quincy Jones

Well, listen, anger doesn't get anything done, so you have to find out: How do you make it work? That's why I was always maniacal about transforming every problem into a puzzle which I can solve. I can solve a puzzle—a problem just stresses me out.

Your music can never be more or less than you are as a human being.

Learn to deal with the valleys, the hills will take care of themselves.

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.

The tragedy of Tupac is that his untimely passing is representative of too many young black men in this country....If we had lost Oprah Winfrey at 25, we would have lost a relatively unknown, local market TV anchorwoman. If we had lost Malcolm X at 25, we would have lost a hustler named Detroit Red. And if I had left the world at 25, we would have lost a big-band trumpet player and aspiring composer--just a sliver of my eventual life potential.

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.

If I don't have a mother, I'll let music be my mother.

I don't remember feeling love.

I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.