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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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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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Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.
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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 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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You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.
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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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There's power in the collective. If you don't believe me, just watch a symphony orchestra with a conductor and 120 people who are thinking about exactly the same thing at the same moment - no babies, no stock markets, no mortgages. Just 32nd notes.
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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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You want your parents to say, Hey, I'm proud of you. When you don't hear that, you learn to compensate. You say, Hell, I don't need their approval. If I get my music right, I'll have everyone else's approval. I didn't understand it then, but I now know that's what happened to me.
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I've met every freak in the business.
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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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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 was the most subtle person in the world.
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I improvised my life along the way - I just moved step-by-step. And I knew that if I got better, something would happen.
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