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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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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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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 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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You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.
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I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.
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Let's not get too full of ourselves. Let's leave space for God to come into the room.
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The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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The only music I don't like is bad music.
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I've met every freak in the business.
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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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A person's age can be determined by the degree of pain he experiences when he comes in contact with a new idea.
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Im probably the only one in the world you can name thats worked with Billie Holiday, Louie Armstrong, Ella, Duke, Miles, Dizzy, Ray Charles, Aretha, Michael Jackson, rappers. Fly Me to the Moon was played on the moon by Buzz Aldrin. Sinatra. Paul Simon. Tony Bennett. Im the only one.
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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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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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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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To me it's no accident that all the symphony orchestras around the world tune up to the note A. And A is 440 cycles, except in Germany where it's 444. But the universe is 450 cycles. So what I'm trying to say is, I think it's God's voice, melody especially. Counterpoint, retrograde inversion, harmony... that's the science and the craft.
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Editing while you're writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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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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I'm just a musician and a record producer.
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