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I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.

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Quincy Jones
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
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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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The process is the most beautiful part.
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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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I've met every freak in the business.
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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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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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Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.
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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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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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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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Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to come along and upset everybody.
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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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The people who make it to the top - whether they're musicians, or great chefs, or corporate honchos - are addicted to their calling ... [they] are the ones who'd be doing whatever it is they love, even if they weren't being paid.
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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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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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I was the most subtle person in the world.
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The only music I don't like is bad music.
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