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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
Actor
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Bandleader
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Film Producer
Humanitarian
Instrumentalist
Jazz Musician
Jazz Trumpeter
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Chicago
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Quincy Delight Jones Jr.
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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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Every day you must be able to say, I have to get up because I'm needed by someone. As long as you have that, you're healthy.
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After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it's worse than ever.
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Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.
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They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.
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I go to the favelas in Brazil. It's the same in the South Side of Chicago. It's the same, or just more violent. We're trying to get them to stop selling dope. You see kids with AK-47s, and nine-year-olds with nine millimeters. You know, they don't play. They make us look like nuns.
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You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
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Some summers my father would take us down to visit our grandmother in Louisville, who was an ex-slave, Susan Jones, and she had a shotgun shack they call it, and no electricity, a well in the back, a coal stove, kerosene lamps.
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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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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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The process is the most beautiful part.
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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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The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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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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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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I'm just a musician and a record producer.
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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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I was married for 36 years but now I'm free.
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