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

Quincy Jones

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Quincy Jones
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
Actor
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Bandleader
Composer
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Film Producer
Humanitarian
Instrumentalist
Jazz Musician
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Quincy Delight Jones Jr.
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I was the most subtle person in the world.
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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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It was messed up, because in 1947 my family moved to Seattle and I had to get up at 5:00 o'clock in the morning to catch the ferry back to Bremerton every morning because I was Boys Club president.
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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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A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that's the bottom line.
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Communications are making this one world. Back in the day, 400-500 years ago, nobody knew what anyone else was doing. It's on the 6 O'Clock news now. Now we can say, Oh, that's the way they live. Oh, they do that!! Opportunities, the chance to bring about change, it's all based on communication. Communication and jet planes.
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