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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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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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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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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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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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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 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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All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young, every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every night club, listened to every band that came through, because in those days we didn't have MTV, we didn't have television.
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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 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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I don't remember feeling love.
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I was the most subtle person in the world.
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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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China's got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain't right.
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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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Michael (Jackson) was so shy, he'd sit down and sing behind the couch with his back to me while I sat with my hands over my eyes-and the lights off.
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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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