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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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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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All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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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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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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Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.
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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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The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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You have to know that your real home is within.
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I'm just a musician and a record producer.
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Some summers my father would take us down to visit our grandmother in Louisville, who was an ex-slave, Susan Jones, and she had a shotgun shack they call it, and no electricity, a well in the back, a coal stove, kerosene lamps.
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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.
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I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to know about everything.
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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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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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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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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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A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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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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