Quincy Jones Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• Thank God, 50 years ago I learned that our entire business is all based on two things; a great song and a great story. Film, television, if you don't have that story, nothing else matters. You don't call anybody else or direct anybody. The same with a song. A great song can make the worst singer in the world a star.

  Quincy Jones

  Song, Stars, Years

  "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.

• A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape!

  Quincy Jones

  Song, Sound, Shapes

• A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that's the bottom line.

  Quincy Jones

  Song, Three, World

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

• A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.

  Quincy Jones

  Song, Color, Should Have

• I used to practice piano for hours, and now, with a synthesizer, you can input the music and the machine perfects the song. That's why we have so many people in the music business who should be plumbers. They don't really understand music because they haven't been trained.

  Quincy Jones

  Song, People, Hours

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