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Quincy Jones
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Quincy Jones
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
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Quincy Delight Jones Jr.
Quincy Delight Jones Jr
Quincy Jones Jr.
Idiosyncrasies
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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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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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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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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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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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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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Every day you must be able to say, I have to get up because I'm needed by someone. As long as you have that, you're healthy.
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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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A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that's the bottom line.
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The people who make it to the top - whether they're musicians, or great chefs, or corporate honchos - are addicted to their calling ... [they] are the ones who'd be doing whatever it is they love, even if they weren't being paid.
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All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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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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I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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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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Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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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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I don't remember feeling love.
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You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.
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I'm just a musician and a record producer.
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We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.
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