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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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Quincy Jones
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
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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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Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
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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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The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.
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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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I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.
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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 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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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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Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.
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Eight kids and a stepmother, and I just wanted to be out of there and so when I got a scholarship from Boston to the Schillinger House, which is now the Berklee School of Music, I couldn't wait to get out of there.
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