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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.
Quincy Jones
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Quincy Jones
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
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Eight kids and a stepmother, and I just wanted to be out of there and so when I got a scholarship from Boston to the Schillinger House, which is now the Berklee School of Music, I couldn't wait to get out of there.
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Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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