I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, "Ain't that the truth."
Interpretation
A genuine laugh expresses deep truths and resonate emotions.
Quincy Jones suggests that laughter serves as a powerful and authentic expression of our inner selves. When we laugh heartily, it reflects an understanding of life's realities, often conveying a shared recognition of experiences or truths that connect us to one another.
In practice
In a speech about overcoming challenges, one might quote Quincy Jones to emphasize the healing power of laughter.
Just blow in it and sound bad for about a year and then make it sound a little bit better, and you get a little band together, and then you get a few jobs. You take four guys that sound half bad, but if they're 25 percent each, they can give 100 percent, you know?
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
When you produce an album, you're dealing with it theatrically. It has to have a structure, and the inner response to that is that the ear loves it.
You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.
I tell my kids and I tell proteges, always have humility when you create and grace when you succeed, because it's not about you. You are a terminal for a higher power. As soon as you accept that, you can do it forever.
I have always felt that humor was a wonderful vehicle to let us become connected with each other and ourselves… I try to portray the similarities and polarities in men and women, so that we_x000D_ can acknowledge and embrace our collective consciousness.
It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn't.
It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them.
Comedy needs to happen naturally and be in touch with the character. When you see that guy in your office that everybody laughs at, he doesn't think he's funny. He's just being him, and that's the joke.
There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I'm not going.
If the shoe fits, buy another one just like it.
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