Quincy Jones
Quincy Jones
Quincy Delightt Jones, Jr., also known as "Q", is an American record producer, conductor, arranger, composer, musician, television producer, film producer, instrumentalist, magazine founder, entertainment company executive, and humanitarian. His career spans six decades in the entertainment industry and a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 28 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend Award in 1991...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusic Producer
Date of Birth14 March 1933
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
If I don't have a mother, I'll let music be my mother.
I never felt like I had a mother.
I don't remember feeling love.
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.
China's got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain't right.
You have to know that your real home is within.
I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.
I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.
My son is a hip-hop producer.
My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
I'm just a musician and a record producer.
You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.