Quincy Jones Quotes

I think first thing and the most important thing, for me, is that Boston becomes my musical home, my musical family.

I really enjoy being with the people I play with. I enjoy their company. I love the crew, the band - we just move through the country like an army. I always feel very grateful to be up there. There aren't any bad nights anymore unless I'm singing bad, but then the band will carry me. And if they're playing bad, I will carry them..

We used to really feel like the band was our family.

Rock n' roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community.

To me, the band is like one of my homes, in fact. It's not like, 'I've got to get out of this band. I've got to go home.' This band is home in a lot of ways. It's my closest friends; it's a place where I really feel comfortable and happy.

We humans are not born alone; joining and being active in a club whose members share your passion for ideas and get your jokes is one of the great joys of life.

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.

I have my family; I'm never alone.

It's a small community, the classical music community, along with the excitement of new places and new things and this feeling of being at home wherever you go because that's where your community is.

There's something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.

I've realised how important having family is.

I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians.

Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.

Music is an art form that I love dearly, and it's allowed me to bring so many people together and meet so many people.

So many things can be filtered through fandom - joy, compassion, love.

The band's a really close-knit family. We've got fantastically good friendships and relationships that have developed after all these years.

The nice thing about working in surf films so long is becoming part of the surf tribe. Anywhere I go where there are surfers, I get welcomed pretty easily.

It's just nice to have people around and see people actively trying to construct a community of mutual support around music.

I put together the idea for G3 because I felt isolated. The success of being a 'guitar hero' kept me away from all my friends who were guitar players. I thought it would be a lot more fun to play with them.

I think musicians are always supportive of each other because they want the groove to keep going on. They just basically want to play music.

So many of us feel like we're misfits until we finally find our tribe - the other people who are are strange in the same way - and suddenly everything clicks.

I really enjoy the social aspects of music as much as anything.

To us, our house was not unsentient matter -- it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies; it was of us, and we were in its confidence, and lived in its grace and in the peace of its benediction.

A sense of belonging is not physical. We cant find it by changing where we live or what we do. We have to carry it within us

I was born in St. Louis and lived in Pittsburgh for a bit, before my family moved to Nigeria, where they're from. We lived there for three or four years and came back to the States when I was about ten. I realised that I'd gone from place to place not fitting in. The thing that helped me fit in when moving around and not having a ton of friends was that I could make art. That was the through-line.