"The climate in the ’50s and ’60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious."
― Quincy Jones
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Business
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- "If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You’re dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle."
- "It’s amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don’t have anything else to do."
- "I’ve met every freak in the business."
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- "An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission."― Fred Allen
- "You can have a wrestling idea, but you need to have these momentum-shifting moves. We had the Hulkamania movement, then it shifted to the beer-drinking, Stone Cold era, we reinvented the business with growing the black beard and becoming the bad guy, what’s that next level."― Hulk Hogan
- "Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers."― William Feather