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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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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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Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.
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It's very freaky in Chicago.There's something in the water there, I don't know what it is. But the actual word Chicago means, in the Indian language, garlic. It was just garlic and mosquitoes there. And that is the roughest city on the planet, and I been to every place in the world.
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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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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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I'm just a musician and a record producer.
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I go to the favelas in Brazil. It's the same in the South Side of Chicago. It's the same, or just more violent. We're trying to get them to stop selling dope. You see kids with AK-47s, and nine-year-olds with nine millimeters. You know, they don't play. They make us look like nuns.
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You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.
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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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A person's age can be determined by the degree of pain he experiences when he comes in contact with a new idea.
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We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.
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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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I was the most subtle person in the world.
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You want your parents to say, Hey, I'm proud of you. When you don't hear that, you learn to compensate. You say, Hell, I don't need their approval. If I get my music right, I'll have everyone else's approval. I didn't understand it then, but I now know that's what happened to me.
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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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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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