Home / Quotes / Quote by Quincy Jones

Quote by Quincy Jones

“Empty the cup every time and it comes back at twice as full. I developed that attitude when I was very, very young, when I decided I didn't want to be a gangster anymore. Whether it's just shining shoes, I said okay, I'm going to do this better than anybody else did it in my life.”

Quote by Quincy Jones

Author

Quincy Jones is a highly respected record producer, composer, arranger, conductor, and musician. Born on March 14, 1933, he has had a profound and enduring career in the music industry. Jones has produced over 40 albums, won 27 Grammy Awards, and has been honored for his contributions to music with a Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award. more

You May Also Like

“Probably my favorite thing about watching a movie that I'm in the first time is to see all the things I didn't know were happening in a scene around me.”

Knows Firsts Scene Happenings First Time My Favorite Favorites Things

Author:Ed Helms

“With the tiger you're always on edge, and you always have to keep your distance. The monkey is far less threatening so you're more relaxed around the monkey, and I think that's actually hazardous.”

Thinking Distance Edges Monkeys Tigers Threatening Relaxed

Author:Ed Helms

“I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you're supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.”

Two Real Mouths Ears Two Ears And One Mouth

Author:Quincy Jones

“If you could change the neural pathways in your brain so that you could recall everything you've ever heard, taste, smelled or touched, basically from the womb on, and use it at your disposal, that's an interesting concept.”

Ifs Use Interesting Brain Heard Taste Concepts Touched Recalls Womb Pathways

Author:Bradley Cooper

“What it boils down to is that when you say the word Las Vegas it means something. You could say New York City and it doesn't really mean anything. When you say a word like Bangkok, in my mind it means something. There's not a lot of cities where the world literally brings a picture to your mind.”

World Mind Mean Cities New York New York City Vegas Really Mean Las Vegas Bangkok

Author:Todd Phillips

“The only thing I hate are photo shoots. I just hate them. I don't know why I cannot stand them.”

Knows Hate I Hate Photo Shoots Things I Hate

Author:Bradley Cooper

“Painting is my profession, because it has always been the thing that interested me most. I'm of a certain age, I come from a different tradition and, in any case, I can't do anything else. I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with us, as something human.”

Humans Stills I Can Different Age Certain Cases Painting Singing Capacity Tradition Dancing Profession Make Sense Human Capacity

Author:Gerhard Richter

“I don't how I can describe the quality that is only found in art (be it music, literature, painting, or whatever), this quality, it's just there, and it endures.”

Art I Can Found Literature Quality Painting Art Is Endure

Author:Gerhard Richter

“Art is the ideal medium for making contact with the transcendental, or at least for getting close to it.”

Art Art Is Ideals Contact Mediums Transcendental

Author:Gerhard Richter

“Art shows us how to see things that are constructive and good, and to be an active part of that.”

Art Shows Active Constructive

Author:Gerhard Richter