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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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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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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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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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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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I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.
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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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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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I'm just a musician and a record producer.
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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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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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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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They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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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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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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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 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.
Quincy Jones
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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I was married for 36 years but now I'm free.
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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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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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