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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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Quincy Jones
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
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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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I used to practice piano for hours, and now, with a synthesizer, you can input the music and the machine perfects the song. That's why we have so many people in the music business who should be plumbers. They don't really understand music because they haven't been trained.
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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'm just a musician and a record producer.
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I was the most subtle person in the world.
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You have to know that your real home is within.
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I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.
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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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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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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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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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All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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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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I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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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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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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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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I improvised my life along the way - I just moved step-by-step. And I knew that if I got better, something would happen.
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They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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