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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.
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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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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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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