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 think that sometimes you do something that makes a small group of people laugh, which is all we were trying to do; we were just trying to make each other laugh.
Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets.
Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.
No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk.
When I was ten, I wrote an essay on what I would be when I grew up and said I would be a professional soccer player and a comedian in off season.
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
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