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I was the most subtle person in the world.

Quincy Jones

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Quincy Jones
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
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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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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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Editing while you're writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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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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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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Jazz has the power to make men forget their differences and come together... Jazz is the personification of transforming overwhelmingly negative circumstances into freedom, friendship, hope, and dignity.
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My brother died of cancer two years ago (1998), renal cell carcinoma. He was my only real brother and I didn't know what to do. I'd never been so desperate in my life.
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A lot of the guys were like that - Oscar Pettiford - they just took me under their wing, and that's why I automatically help young people. I just love it, because they did that for me.
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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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When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.
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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, Ain't that the truth.
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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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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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All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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I'm just a musician and a record producer.
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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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I was married for 36 years but now I'm free.
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