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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
Quincy Jones
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Quincy Jones
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
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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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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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All the jazz guys had interracial relationships, and even the ladies did. Over the years, interracial relationships have been a hip, almost defiant thing, a way of saying Nobody can put a boundary around me.
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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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It was messed up, because in 1947 my family moved to Seattle and I had to get up at 5:00 o'clock in the morning to catch the ferry back to Bremerton every morning because I was Boys Club president.
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I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you're supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.
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I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.
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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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I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young, every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every night club, listened to every band that came through, because in those days we didn't have MTV, we didn't have television.
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Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to come along and upset everybody.
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My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
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A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape!
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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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