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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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Quincy Jones
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
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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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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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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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I was married for 36 years but now I'm free.
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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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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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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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My dream is to put together a performance of the evolution of black music with Cirque du Soleil . I would also like to do street opera and children's books. But even as I work toward these things, I want to simplify my life.
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I'm just a musician and a record producer.
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I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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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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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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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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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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