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I'm just a musician and a record producer.

Quincy Jones

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Quincy Jones
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
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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 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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I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you're supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.
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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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My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
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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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Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.
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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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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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I've met every freak in the business.
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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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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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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.
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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 act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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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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Editing while you're writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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Im probably the only one in the world you can name thats worked with Billie Holiday, Louie Armstrong, Ella, Duke, Miles, Dizzy, Ray Charles, Aretha, Michael Jackson, rappers. Fly Me to the Moon was played on the moon by Buzz Aldrin. Sinatra. Paul Simon. Tony Bennett. Im the only one.
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Excellence isn't an act, it's a habit
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I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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