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My son is a hip-hop producer.
Quincy Jones
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Quincy Jones
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
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Quincy Delight Jones Jr.
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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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The process is the most beautiful part.
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The only music I don't like is bad music.
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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've met every freak in the business.
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I'm just a musician and a record producer.
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You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.
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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 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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Let's not get too full of ourselves. Let's leave space for God to come into the room.
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I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.
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Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
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Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.
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