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I don't remember feeling love.

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Quincy Jones
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
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It's very freaky in Chicago.There's something in the water there, I don't know what it is. But the actual word Chicago means, in the Indian language, garlic. It was just garlic and mosquitoes there. And that is the roughest city on the planet, and I been to every place in the world.
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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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A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that's the bottom line.
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I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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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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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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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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A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape!
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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 don't deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn't deserve that, either. So I'll keep it.
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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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