Quincy Jones Quotes

You can learn from everyone, the president or the cleaner. You need teachers in life, but they're not always school teachers or professors. You learn from ordinary people. You learn from travel, from just walking down the street.

My mentors in life are much older than me and have been through life. They can actually give me some sound advice on what I'm going through.

An older guy, he's going to show you things that a young man can't show you. He's going to show you how to stay alive. He's going to show you how to turn corners where your young friends will show you how to turn right into that wall, you know what I'm saying?

I've received many good pieces of advice throughout my life.

I have very smart parents. I feel I learned a lot from both of my parents and life experience.

We respect our elders. There is wisdom that comes from experience, and I am not going to stop learning from wise counsel.

I went to the school of hard knocks.

I wish there were people when I was young that I had a respect for and looked up to that I could have been guided by. I didn't have that, and I really do wish I did because I think I would've learned a lot more.

I made so many mistakes when I was younger.

I've been around older guys most of my life; I feel like that's definitely an advantage for me.

A man in his life may have many teachers, some most unexpected. The question lies with the man himself: Will he learn from them?

Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young.

Years teach us more than books.

Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.

Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't.

I get sillier as I get older, so I don't know what wisdom means. I can only pass on something that I've been acquainted with and let whomever it is pick the bones out of it

Age is a hell of a price to pay for wisdom.

Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.

Use your past as one of your mentors.

Everybody has a story. And there's something to be learned from every experience.

...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.

It is good to live and learn.

The trouble with experience is that by the time you have it you are too old to take advantage of it.

Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?

You live and learn. Then you die and forget it all.