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The only music I don't like is bad music.

Quincy Jones

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Quincy Jones
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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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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Editing while you're writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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I'm just a musician and a record producer.
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I've met every freak in the business.
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I go to the favelas in Brazil. It's the same in the South Side of Chicago. It's the same, or just more violent. We're trying to get them to stop selling dope. You see kids with AK-47s, and nine-year-olds with nine millimeters. You know, they don't play. They make us look like nuns.
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I was married for 36 years but now I'm free.
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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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Let's not get too full of ourselves. Let's leave space for God to come into the room.
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