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Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
Quincy Jones
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Quincy Jones
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
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Quincy Delight Jones Jr.
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I've met every freak in the business.
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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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I'm just a musician and a record producer.
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You have to know that your real home is within.
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Jazz has the power to make men forget their differences and come together... Jazz is the personification of transforming overwhelmingly negative circumstances into freedom, friendship, hope, and dignity.
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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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You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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I was married for 36 years but now I'm free.
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I don't remember feeling love.
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Communications are making this one world. Back in the day, 400-500 years ago, nobody knew what anyone else was doing. It's on the 6 O'Clock news now. Now we can say, Oh, that's the way they live. Oh, they do that!! Opportunities, the chance to bring about change, it's all based on communication. Communication and jet planes.
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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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Benny [Carter] opened the eyes of a lot of producers and studios, so that they could understand that you could go to blacks for other things outside of blues and barbecue. He's a total musician. He was the pioneer, he was the foundation. He made it possible for that doubt to be taken away.
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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 the most subtle person in the world.
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