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Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to come along and upset everybody.

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Quincy Jones
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
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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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All the jazz guys had interracial relationships, and even the ladies did. Over the years, interracial relationships have been a hip, almost defiant thing, a way of saying Nobody can put a boundary around me.
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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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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 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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All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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Editing while you're writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.
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