Quincy Jones Quotes About Home

Quotes about: Home

• You have to know that your real home is within.

  Quincy Jones

  Real, Self Esteem, Home

• 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.

  Quincy Jones

  Home, Writing, Dry

  Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. June 3, 1995.

• My daddy was a carpenter that worked with the Jones boys, who are the most notorious in America. The black gangsters, you know, they were no joke. And he was their master carpenter. He used to build their homes, and all I saw when I was 11 years old were dead bodies and tommy guns and stogies, and backrooms, you know, Drexel Wine and Liquor, with the big piles of money underneath.

  Quincy Jones

  Wine, Home, Gun

  "Quincy Jones Recalls "Freaking Out" at Michael Jackson's Death and His Private Nickname for the Star". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 11, 2015.

• After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it's worse than ever.

  Quincy Jones

  Country, War, Home

  Los Angeles Times interview, articles.latimes.com. April 18, 1997.

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