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I was married for 36 years but now I'm free.

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Quincy Jones
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
Actor
Autobiographer
Bandleader
Composer
Conductor
Film Producer
Humanitarian
Instrumentalist
Jazz Musician
Jazz Trumpeter
Music Arranger
Chicago
Illinois
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Quincy Delight Jones Jr.
Quincy Delight Jones Jr
Quincy Jones Jr.
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The only music I don't like is bad music.
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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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All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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It's easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.
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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'm just a musician and a record producer.
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Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.
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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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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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I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
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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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A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that's the bottom line.
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Excellence isn't an act, it's a habit
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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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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.
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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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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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The process is the most beautiful part.
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