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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.

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Quincy Jones
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
Actor
Autobiographer
Bandleader
Composer
Conductor
Film Producer
Humanitarian
Instrumentalist
Jazz Musician
Jazz Trumpeter
Music Arranger
Chicago
Illinois
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Quincy Delight Jones Jr.
Quincy Delight Jones Jr
Quincy Jones Jr.
Movies
Music
Consonance
Dissonance
Tension
Release

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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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