Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poet...
QUINCY JONES You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.
QUINCY JONES I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just c...
QUINCY JONES I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that ...
QUINCY JONES It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.
QUINCY JONES I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the m...
QUINCY JONES If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
QUINCY JONES I'm Pisces with Leo rising. The Pisces part is the dreamer. The Leo says, 'Let's execute...
QUINCY JONES I didn't understand key signatures or anything, you know. I'd say silly things at the top of...
QUINCY JONES Seattle is like a global gumbo, a melting pot with all kinds of people - the rich, the poor, white p...
QUINCY JONES We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probab...
QUINCY JONES I lost my mother when I was 7 and they put her in a mental hospital. My brother and I watched her be...
QUINCY JONES Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it&#...
QUINCY JONES A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top ...
QUINCY JONES Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
QUINCY JONES I don't ever want to grow up. That's boring.
QUINCY JONES I've never been bored in my life, man. I've never been bored or lonely. Are you kidding? No ...
QUINCY JONES I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long t...
QUINCY JONES You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
QUINCY JONES I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of al...
QUINCY JONES I tell my kids and I tell proteges, always have humility when you create and grace when you succeed,...
QUINCY JONES Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
QUINCY JONES Working with kids in Soweto in South Africa, it's rough out there. But the bottom line is you...
QUINCY JONES When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in ...
QUINCY JONES Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a litt...
QUINCY JONES Melody is king, and don't you ever forget it. Lyrics appear to be out front, but they're not...
QUINCY JONES I believe that a hundred years from now, when people look back at the 20th century, they will look a...
QUINCY JONES I believe in astrology as much as I do in genetics.
QUINCY JONES The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment b...
QUINCY JONES Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had be...
QUINCY JONES After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, tr...
QUINCY JONES Bebop and hip-hop, in so many ways, they're connected. A lot of rappers remind me so much of beb...
QUINCY JONES I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats...
QUINCY JONES To me it's no accident that all the symphony orchestras around the world tune up to the note A. ...
QUINCY JONES I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, "Ain't that the tr...
QUINCY JONES I'm probably the only one in the world you can name that's worked with Billie Holiday, Louie...
QUINCY JONES We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the ga...
QUINCY JONES When you work with Ray Charles, Billy Eckstine and Frank Sinatra, and you tell them to jump without ...
QUINCY JONES Frank Sinatra took me to a whole new planet. I worked with him until he passed away in '98. He l...
QUINCY JONES My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
QUINCY JONES China's got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain...
QUINCY JONES I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.
QUINCY JONES They said, 'Why don't you make a hit record?' I said, 'It's not a big deal.' Because jazz musicians,...
QUINCY JONES It's worth about a half-billion dollars now. He had magazine publishing, too, with Liberty. It's iro...
QUINCY JONES I've never looked back in my life. I don't want to see that stuff. I had blanked out a lot of stuff ...
QUINCY JONES I don't deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and...
QUINCY JONES It was incredible. The samba is fantastic, I want to buy the record.
QUINCY JONES That will always be my music, man. I play 'Kind of Blue' every day -- it's my orange juice. It still...
QUINCY JONES Ray Charles is a giant. He was one of my mentors. He would write arrangements in Braille, and transl...
QUINCY JONES Tony is the one who knows how to fly us to the moon and get us back.
QUINCY JONES Your future is so bright it burns my eyes
QUINCY JONES I am committing myself to doing everything possible to pull the resources together to aid the childr...
QUINCY JONES Irvin has a broad taste. That's why he had all those (vocalist) girls. He had everybody, man. It was...
QUINCY JONES I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.
QUINCY JONES My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
QUINCY JONES I'm just a musician and a record producer.
QUINCY JONES My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not f...
QUINCY JONES I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. I...
QUINCY JONES We want our customers to be able to tell the difference.
QUINCY ALLEN Print providers want to leverage business opportunities and maximize their investment in digital tec...
QUINCY ALLEN For more than two decades, Xerox has revolutionized the digital production printing industry -- and ...
QUINCY ALLEN That was two minutes faster than Tuesday and four minutes faster than Monday.
QUINCY ALLEN Printers need to differentiate from their competitors. They must push the boundaries of digital and ...
QUINCY ALLEN When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first.
JOSIAH QUINCY We're not playing harder because he's leaving. We're playing hard because that's what's needed to wi...
QUINCY DOUBY We're not playing harder because he's leaving and stuff. We're just playing hard because that's what...
QUINCY DOUBY When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first
JOSIAH QUINCY It is by no means improbable that some future textbook, for the use of generations yet unborn, will ...
JOSIAH QUINCY I was thinking attack the rim, get a bucket and to foul a bad free throw shooter and play by possess...
QUINCY DOUBY If this bill passes... as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, to prepare de...
JOSIAH QUINCY You may have been to a rally, poker run or bike night, but this is the first show of its kind servic...
QUINCY BARNES Hopefully I can play the whole game,
QUINCY MORGAN There's a reason why he's starting. He has an element of toughness about him and he's surprisingly v...
QUINCY LEWIS We may now see a pullback in spending. This winter and this Christmas shopping season are going to b...
QUINCY KROSBY In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionatin...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles va...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles ...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS La molesse est douce, et sa suite est cruelle.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her Amer...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Of all the foundations of establishments for pious or charitable uses, which ever signalized the spi...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS . . . The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican gove...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made by themselves, for themselves, and...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS "Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long," 'Tis not with me exactly so; ...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathe...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Where annual elections end, there slavery begins.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was ...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS The die was now cast; I had passed the Rubicon. Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with ...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to take ...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope y...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS This is the last of earth! I am content.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS All rising to great place is by a winding stair.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Westward the star of empire takes its way.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacl...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS You won't realize the distance you've walked until you take a look around and realize how far you've...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Yesterday the greatest question was decided which was ever debated in America; and a greater perhap...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill-will to any human being, and even compassionati...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Duty is ours, results are God's.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection th...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS This idea of the transcendent power of the Supreme Being is essentially connected with that by which...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS From the day of the Declaration, the people of the North American union, and of its constituent stat...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS The Declaration of Independence pronounced the irrevocable decree of political separation, between t...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS To read the Bible is of itself a laudable occupation and can scarcely fail of being a useful employm...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS According to the Stoics, all vice was resolvable into folly: according to the Christian principle, i...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS It was the special purpose of Christ's appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS It is of no use to discover our own faults and infirmities unless the discovery prompts up to amendm...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights. It is f...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS I have no predilection for unpopularity as such, but I hold it much preferable to the popularity of ...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Is not the brand of 'double-dealer' stamped on the forehead of every democratic slaveholder?...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS In order to preserve the dominion of our own passions, it behooves us to be constantly and strictly ...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS The great object of the institution of civil government is the improvement of those who are parties ...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS It is among the evils of slavery that it taints the very sources of moral principle. It establishes ...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Gratitude, warm, sincere, intense, when it takes possession of the bosom, fills the soul to overflow...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the libertie...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Heaven has given to every human being the power of controlling his passions, and if he neglects or l...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the pri...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and i...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe no...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS This is the last of earth! I am content.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger th...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS This mode of electioneering suited neither my taste nor my principles. I thought it equally unsuitab...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS It is essential...that you should form and adopt certain rules or principles, for the government of ...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Duty is ours; results are God's
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS We understand now, we've been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are i...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom ...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS If slavery be the destined sword of the hand of the destroying angel which is to sever the ties of t...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read it the more confi...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our ...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS The Bible contains the revelation of the will of God. It contains the history of the creation of the...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionatin...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of ...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is ... the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon m...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS It was a first meeting. Now the PUD will have to go back and crunch the numbers and see what might b...
MAYOR QUINCY SNOW Try and fail,but don't fail to try.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS I would be writing an essay that was due in the next day until about 1 A.M., and then I would be up ...
FELICITY JONES It's great to see that celebrities can be just like us - that they too have their highs and lows...
SHIRLEY JONES I only know from my own personal experience, and I personally feel that there's a cyclical natur...
JEFFREY JONES I miss all of my old friends who have passed away. Sometimes you just don't understand why they ...
GEORGE JONES I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.
TAYARI JONES Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.
TAYARI JONES Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.
TAYARI JONES My first novel, 'Leaving Atlanta,' took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the c...
TAYARI JONES I like straightforward names for my characters. When I get too symbolic with names or places, I star...
TAYARI JONES I do have a sister - I have two sisters.
TAYARI JONES When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an e...
TAYARI JONES I was kind of an invisible girl when I was young.
TAYARI JONES I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.
TAYARI JONES I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, whe...
TAYARI JONES When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catc...
TAYARI JONES I think the NAACP isn't recognized enough for all of the work it does, especially in the field o...
TAYARI JONES I made the best business decision at 14 when I decided to get into acting. The worst was owning 2 ho...
TAMALA JONES I love Yves Saint Laurent. I love Chanel. And Versace! Such beautiful gowns!
TAMALA JONES I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.
TAMALA JONES The expectations were low for 'Castle;' people thought we'd be one season and done.
TAMALA JONES I definitely love 'Camelot.' It's my favorite show. I'm a big 'True Blood' f...
TAMALA JONES I'm the only girl out of three children. I have two younger brothers. I've grown up around b...
TAMALA JONES People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my J...
TAMALA JONES I hid the fact that I had an aneurysm for a very long time. I was embarrassed, and I just felt like ...
TAMALA JONES I can go into a restaurant; I might have to go a few times, taste something, love it and figure out ...
TAMALA JONES I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
TAMALA JONES I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
TAMALA JONES For me, to do a reality show is like sending myself to actor's graveyard. I feel like I should w...
TAMALA JONES I'm a little goofy sometimes; I can get a little wacky.
TAMALA JONES I read a whole bunch of bits and pieces over the years, obviously from the fan magazines and the res...
DAVY JONES You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't b...
VAN JONES Let me say what I actually believe. I believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy, by Al Qaeda, and Osama Bin...
VAN JONES I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explai...
VAN JONES I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and a...
JACK JONES I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get...
JACK JONES Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.
JACK JONES I particularly like Hershey's chocolate, the kind which has almonds in it.
JACK JONES When people say to me, 'What do you think of rap music?', my answer is, 'There's no ...
JACK JONES I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.
GRACE JONES I have a weakness for watches. I have to stop myself buying more.
TOM JONES Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color.
CHUCK JONES I always have a positive reaction to Times Square - you've got so many people passing through he...
DHANI JONES I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don't know where it's going to le...
GRACE JONES I like dressing like a guy. I love it. When I was modeling I used to do pictures where I would dress...
GRACE JONES I want to see as many black professionals as possible.
ORLANDO JONES Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a persona...
ORLANDO JONES Belly was not a bad movie. It was visually very interesting.
ORLANDO JONES I walked in thinking, 'I have ten movies under my belt and now they want me to go back to making...
ORLANDO JONES That was one of the things that interested me about the character. He doesn't want to be a hero,...
ORLANDO JONES Most of my friends between 21 and 31 are at different stages of figuring out what the hell they are ...
ORLANDO JONES You give the guy an Image Award three years in a row and then turn on him like that? If that's t...
ORLANDO JONES Hate speech and freedom of speech are two different things.
LESLIE JONES In 'Hell Ride,' I play a biker - it's about the bikers. It's with Dennis Hopper and ...
VINNIE JONES