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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.
Quincy Jones
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Quincy Jones
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
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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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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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The process is the most beautiful part.
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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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You have to know that your real home is within.
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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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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.
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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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All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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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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They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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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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