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Quincy Jones
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Quincy Jones
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
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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.
Quincy Jones
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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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.
Quincy Jones
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.
Quincy Jones
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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The process is the most beautiful part.
Quincy Jones
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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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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I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
Quincy Jones
I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.
Quincy Jones
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.
Quincy Jones
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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Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.
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The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
Quincy Jones
My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
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The only music I don't like is bad music.
Quincy Jones
Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.'
Quincy Jones
I got to trumpet, finally. That's why I love to write for brass, and [Count] Basie and [Frank] Sinatra and all that stuff, 'cause that's just like part of my DNA.
Quincy Jones
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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It was messed up, because in 1947 my family moved to Seattle and I had to get up at 5:00 o'clock in the morning to catch the ferry back to Bremerton every morning because I was Boys Club president.
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