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Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling.


Felicity Jones

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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 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 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.
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