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Editing while you're writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.

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Quincy Jones
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
Actor
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Bandleader
Composer
Conductor
Film Producer
Humanitarian
Instrumentalist
Jazz Musician
Jazz Trumpeter
Music Arranger
Chicago
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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.
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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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There's power in the collective. If you don't believe me, just watch a symphony orchestra with a conductor and 120 people who are thinking about exactly the same thing at the same moment - no babies, no stock markets, no mortgages. Just 32nd notes.
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I was the most subtle person in the world.
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I was married for 36 years but now I'm free.
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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 went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.
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My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
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