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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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All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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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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Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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The only music I don't like is bad music.
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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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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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A lot of the guys were like that - Oscar Pettiford - they just took me under their wing, and that's why I automatically help young people. I just love it, because they did that for me.
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It's very freaky in Chicago.There's something in the water there, I don't know what it is. But the actual word Chicago means, in the Indian language, garlic. It was just garlic and mosquitoes there. And that is the roughest city on the planet, and I been to every place in the world.
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I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.
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They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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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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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'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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A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that's the bottom line.
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Excellence isn't an act, it's a habit
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You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.
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The people who make it to the top - whether they're musicians, or great chefs, or corporate honchos - are addicted to their calling ... [they] are the ones who'd be doing whatever it is they love, even if they weren't being paid.
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Every day you must be able to say, I have to get up because I'm needed by someone. As long as you have that, you're healthy.
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