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Quincy Jones
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
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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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All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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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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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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The process is the most beautiful part.
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Editing while you're writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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I was the most subtle person in the world.
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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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To me it's no accident that all the symphony orchestras around the world tune up to the note A. And A is 440 cycles, except in Germany where it's 444. But the universe is 450 cycles. So what I'm trying to say is, I think it's God's voice, melody especially. Counterpoint, retrograde inversion, harmony... that's the science and the craft.
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Michael (Jackson) was so shy, he'd sit down and sing behind the couch with his back to me while I sat with my hands over my eyes-and the lights off.
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There's power in the collective. If you don't believe me, just watch a symphony orchestra with a conductor and 120 people who are thinking about exactly the same thing at the same moment - no babies, no stock markets, no mortgages. Just 32nd notes.
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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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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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My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
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They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young, every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every night club, listened to every band that came through, because in those days we didn't have MTV, we didn't have television.
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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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The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.
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You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.
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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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