"It’s amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don’t have anything else to do." ― Quincy Jones Topic(s): Amazing More From Quincy Jones "The climate in the ’50s and ’60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious." "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’ve met every freak in the business." More In Amazing "I walked to Seward School first through fourth grade. It’s just amazing to me now that we’d walk down 10th Avenue on Capitol Hill."― Stone Gossard "Ted Danson is amazing. He’s incredible."― Alison Brie "It’s amazing to me that, in the 42 years since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law, women today still receive fewer wages than men for the same work."― Mike Honda