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My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren't related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store.

Quote by Quincy Jones about family, good, good luck

Some summers my father would take us down to visit our grandmother in Louisville, who was an ex-slave, Susan Jones, and she had a shotgun shack they call it, and no electricity, a well in the back, a coal stove, kerosene lamps.

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We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.

Quote by Quincy Jones about crime, criminals

A lot of the guys were like that - Oscar Pettiford - they just took me under their wing, and that's why I automatically help young people. I just love it, because they did that for me.

Quote by Quincy Jones about help, love, people

Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became...

Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.

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Eight kids and a stepmother, and I just wanted to be out of there and so when I got a scholarship from Boston to the Schillinger House, which is now the Berklee School of Music, I couldn't wait to get out of there.

Quote by Quincy Jones about home, house, school, music

I chose the trombone because the trombone players in the marching band got to be up front with the majorettes (because of the slides) and I loved that!

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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.

Quote by Quincy Jones about home, writing, music

I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins.

Quote by Quincy Jones about school, things

I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every night club, listened to every band that came through, because in those days we didn't have MTV,...

Quote by Quincy Jones about dance, city, television, day, night, people

I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that...

I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.

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If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You're dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle.

Quote by Quincy Jones about experience, world

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every...

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.

Quote by Quincy Jones about old, olderness, people, world, good, good luck

It slaps your dignity just right. I loved the idea of these proud, dignified black men, and I saw the older ones wounded, and it wounded me ten times as much because I couldn't stand seeing them hurt like this.

Quote by Quincy Jones about dignity, proudness, magic, idea, rightness, man

It was messed up, because in 1947 my family moved to Seattle and I had to get up at 5:00 o'clock in the morning to catch the ferry back to Bremerton every morning because I was Boys Club president.

Quote by Quincy Jones about family

It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you...

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

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It's easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.

Quote by Quincy Jones about music, attention, good, good luck

Just blow in it and sound bad for about a year and then make it sound a little bit better, and you get a little band together, and then you get a few jobs. You take four guys that sound half bad, but if they're 25 percent each, they can give 100...

Quote by Quincy Jones about bad luck, bad

My brother died of cancer two years ago (1998), renal cell carcinoma. He was my only real brother and I didn't know what to do. I'd never been so desperate in my life.

Quote by Quincy Jones about real estate, life

My father worked for Julian Black, the people that ran...

My father worked for Julian Black, the people that ran Joe Louis's life. Joe Louis lived in one of the buildings we lived in.

Quote by Quincy Jones about magic, life, people

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