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Quincy Jones
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
Actor
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Quincy Delight Jones Jr.
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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'm just a musician and a record producer.
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Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.
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I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to know about everything.
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It's easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.
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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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Let's not get too full of ourselves. Let's leave space for God to come into the room.
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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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Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.
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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.
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A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape!
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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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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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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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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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Editing while you're writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.
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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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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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