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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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Quincy Jones
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
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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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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'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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Let's not get too full of ourselves. Let's leave space for God to come into the room.
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My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
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You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.
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You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
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Benny [Carter] opened the eyes of a lot of producers and studios, so that they could understand that you could go to blacks for other things outside of blues and barbecue. He's a total musician. He was the pioneer, he was the foundation. He made it possible for that doubt to be taken away.
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Communications are making this one world. Back in the day, 400-500 years ago, nobody knew what anyone else was doing. It's on the 6 O'Clock news now. Now we can say, Oh, that's the way they live. Oh, they do that!! Opportunities, the chance to bring about change, it's all based on communication. Communication and jet planes.
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A lot of the guys were like that - Oscar Pettiford - they just took me under their wing, and that's why I automatically help young people. I just love it, because they did that for me.
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I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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Every day you must be able to say, I have to get up because I'm needed by someone. As long as you have that, you're healthy.
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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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The process is the most beautiful part.
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After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it's worse than ever.
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I'm just a musician and a record producer.
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I don't remember feeling love.
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