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All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.

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Quincy Jones
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
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When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.
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My brother died of cancer two years ago (1998), renal cell carcinoma. He was my only real brother and I didn't know what to do. I'd never been so desperate in my life.
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Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.'
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I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to know about everything.
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A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that's the bottom line.
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China's got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain't right.
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Editing while you're writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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I was married for 36 years but now I'm free.
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Excellence isn't an act, it's a habit
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I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.
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My dream is to put together a performance of the evolution of black music with Cirque du Soleil . I would also like to do street opera and children's books. But even as I work toward these things, I want to simplify my life.
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Im probably the only one in the world you can name thats worked with Billie Holiday, Louie Armstrong, Ella, Duke, Miles, Dizzy, Ray Charles, Aretha, Michael Jackson, rappers. Fly Me to the Moon was played on the moon by Buzz Aldrin. Sinatra. Paul Simon. Tony Bennett. Im the only one.
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You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.
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It's easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.
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I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, Ain't that the truth.
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Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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I used to practice piano for hours, and now, with a synthesizer, you can input the music and the machine perfects the song. That's why we have so many people in the music business who should be plumbers. They don't really understand music because they haven't been trained.
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A person's age can be determined by the degree of pain he experiences when he comes in contact with a new idea.
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