The process is the most beautiful part.
Interpretation
The journey of creation and effort is often more rewarding than the final product.
Quincy Jones suggests that the act of creating, learning, and engaging in a process is where true beauty lies, rather than solely focusing on the end result. This perspective encourages individuals to appreciate their experiences, growth, and the lessons learned along the way.
In practice
During a motivational speech about perseverance and creativity.
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.
Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.
I was a little girl with a pot belly and Afro puffs, hyperactive and overdramatic, and I found the theater and I found my home.
Fantasy is my genre and my home in the writing world. I consider it the biggest writing room in all literature, where there are literally no boundaries at all.
18th century opera is packed with emotion, but contains not a trace of kitsch. Only with the 'thees' and 'thous' of Victorian poetry does the disease begin to grow in our poetic tradition.
The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.
I keep the drafts of each poem in color-coded folders. I pick up the folders according to how I feel about that color that day.
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