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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.

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Quincy Jones
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
Actor
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Jazz Musician
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Quincy Delight Jones Jr.
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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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Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.
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I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.
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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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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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Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.
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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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Excellence isn't an act, it's a habit
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To me it's no accident that all the symphony orchestras around the world tune up to the note A. And A is 440 cycles, except in Germany where it's 444. But the universe is 450 cycles. So what I'm trying to say is, I think it's God's voice, melody especially. Counterpoint, retrograde inversion, harmony... that's the science and the craft.
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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.
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I got to trumpet, finally. That's why I love to write for brass, and [Count] Basie and [Frank] Sinatra and all that stuff, 'cause that's just like part of my DNA.
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Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
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