They talk about Babe Ruth like he's got the home run record. He ain't the home run king. He's a good player, but he's in second place.


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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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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
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
It was very painful combing my hair. My grand-uncle was a Pentecostal bishop, and he was very strict...
GRACE JONES
I like men. I like the sound of their voices, the way they think. They're more sensitive than wo...
CAROLYN JONES
I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny.
CHUCK JONES
The racing bug is never going to go away. It's like the Mafia.
DAVY JONES
You wouldn't want to see the size of the check that I would write if it would for sure get the D...
JERRY JONES
The press will naturally come and go as it has done with all artists, from David Bowie to Neil Young...
KELLY JONES
When you wear a bow tie, doors open for you. Your posture is a little more erect; your shoulders are...
DHANI JONES
I think we're very lucky that there is a tradition of British actors working in America and bein...
FELICITY JONES
The good, old-fashioned family can help. Students learn by example, and if their parents, aunts, unc...
AL JONES
That's a worry, because we have seen the intensity of students playing video games, watching TV more...
AL JONES
It's the personal, intimate nature of books. It's hard to curl up with a computer.
AL JONES
Somebody must have run a red light, I'm thinking that's the Honda based on preliminary reports.
AL JONES
He was kind of the old-style beat cop. He took care of his area; he really felt responsible for his ...
AL JONES
We talked in the locker room about how we've improved so much. That's what you want a young group to...
AL JONES
We dug ourselves a hole pretty deep and just couldn't get back out of it. We didn't score a field go...
AL JONES
When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the mu...
ADAM JONES
In the time between records, I always have lots of stuff going on. I shoot photography, make little ...
ADAM JONES
I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
ADAM JONES
Doing the stereotypical solo bores me.
ADAM JONES
I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
ADAM JONES
I personally don't like to use as many effects because when you play live, something always goes...
ADAM JONES
I think people like Steve Vai are so boring.
ADAM JONES
I'm not a good guitar player.
ADAM JONES
If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric.
ADAM JONES
Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
ADAM JONES
My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.
ADAM JONES
That's the thing I like about my sound. It's real raw and very unsafe compared to a solid st...
ADAM JONES
We could have gone with much bigger labels and more money, but we wanted to go with a company that i...
ADAM JONES
With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.
ADAM JONES
I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and th...
ADAM JONES
I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
ADAM JONES
That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.
ADAM JONES
We're more into expressing ourselves than making radio hits.
ADAM JONES