Quincy Jones Quotes

The Chicago mobs... They practiced their own perverted form of "survival of the fittest." Where the strong clawed their way to the top of a criminal empire. And the weak died in a hail of machine gun bullets.

What do you mean "gangsters"? It's business.

Wherever there's opportunity, the mafia will be there.

People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.

Some of your worst gangsters are guys who were very low-key.

What I learned about the mob wasn't through lectures at the academy.

If you look at 'The Sopranos,' there's this notion of a criminal element on its last legs.

If you think about the traditional mafia stories we grew up on, it is always about the death of criminal organisations - things like the 'Sopranos' - the last vestiges of once proud families subsumed by the modern era.

The mob is a monster, with the hands of Briareus, but the head of Polyphemus,--strong to execute, but blind to perceive.

The Italian mafia, they're very [into] construction. They're in a whole different way of operating than they did back in the '20s.

I know these dirty cops that'll get us in if we murder some Wop.

Hell, I'm not saying I'm an angel, but when it came to dirty tricks I couldn't hold a candle to the Irish Mafia.

How can I be a gangster, if I worked for the KGB? It is absolutely ridiculous.

Never piss off a gangster.

Prosecutors say my father was the biggest crime boss in the nation... If you really want to know what John Gotti was like, you need to talk to my family. We lived this life.

I have such an image of a mafioso.

I never put my arms around John Gotti, Al Capone or Lucky Luciano.

I wasn't aware of it at the time, but I was a big favorite with the Mafia.

You look at the descriptions of Whitey by law enforcement during his early years, and they sum him up pretty well. He was the same guy 40 years later; he just had $40 million more, and had committed 40 more murders.

I think we have always had a fascination for gangs and gangsters, and I think we always will.

'The Godfather' was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.

… a brutality, cunning and greed for power normally met only in the conclaves of Mafia capi

A handbook for gangsters.

Who knows what is really going on within a criminal enterprise? Criminals

Folks who think organised crime is a thing of the past are only kidding themselves.