Quincy Jones Quotes

I look back at old photographs and videotapes, and I go, Who was I trying to be? Who was I doing this for?

That's a part of me going back to what I used to do.

I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'

I don't even know who that person was in the '80s. I see pictures of myself from back then and I don't even recognize myself.

As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.

For the first five years of music and first five years of acting, I don't remember it because I was running to where I was going. Finally I was like, 'Man, I missed everything.' So I just stopped, and I started looking around.

I think of my life as a journey, and I'm still on it.

It is always nice to reflect on how one started.

I think that the journey of self to truth is always kind of a gnarly one.

We don't know what change is because we don't know what the hell we are. If I wake up tomorrow and do the exact opposite of everything I do today, am I a changed person? Or am I simply the same person who decided to try something different?

As I look back over my life, I've been an active person - obviously I was self-absorbed for a period of time.

I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your final destination.

I never knew modelling was what I wanted to do. I was just meandering through life having fun, having a laugh with my friends.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to find out, who I am, It's something I think I'll be doing for the rest of my life.

I always figure from the cradle to the grave, we all have our individual journeys, and maybe my journey was a positive one and I accomplished certain things without stepping on too many toes.

For me, my life is a journey.

I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.

I believe BMX has shaped me into who I am today, so if this journey never would have begun, then who knows the person I would be or what I would be doing with my life.

Learning what you don't want to do is pretty valuable, it may be as valuable as figuring out what it is you do want to do.

Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. 'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.

I love changing what I look like because I always feel super strange whenever I do watch something that I'm in.

My characters tend to be more dynamic because they're reaching that point in their lives where their old way of being is breaking down. They're conflicted by the idea that they don't know what's next. You could call it Kierkegaard's leap of faith, when you get tired of sort of reinventing yourself on a very superficial level.

A lot of middle-aged women are children still trying to find their way.

I'm not into watching stuff I did last week, let alone three or four years ago.