A biography for Quincy Joneshasn’t been written yet.
“Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.”
“Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.”
“We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.”
“I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to know about everything.”
“Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.”
“I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.”
“My son is a hip-hop producer.”
“I believe in astrology as much as I do in genetics.”