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I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.
Quincy Jones
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Quincy Jones
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
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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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Let's not get too full of ourselves. Let's leave space for God to come into the room.
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I got to trumpet, finally. That's why I love to write for brass, and [Count] Basie and [Frank] Sinatra and all that stuff, 'cause that's just like part of my DNA.
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All the jazz guys had interracial relationships, and even the ladies did. Over the years, interracial relationships have been a hip, almost defiant thing, a way of saying Nobody can put a boundary around me.
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Eight kids and a stepmother, and I just wanted to be out of there and so when I got a scholarship from Boston to the Schillinger House, which is now the Berklee School of Music, I couldn't wait to get out of there.
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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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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 was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to know about everything.
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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 never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need 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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The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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I'm just a musician and a record producer.
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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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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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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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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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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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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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I've met every freak in the business.
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