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I've met every freak in the business.
Quincy Jones
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Quincy Jones
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
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I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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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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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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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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You have to know that your real home is within.
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Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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Communications are making this one world. Back in the day, 400-500 years ago, nobody knew what anyone else was doing. It's on the 6 O'Clock news now. Now we can say, Oh, that's the way they live. Oh, they do that!! Opportunities, the chance to bring about change, it's all based on communication. Communication and jet planes.
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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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It's easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.
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The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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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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The process is the most beautiful part.
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Eight kids and a stepmother, and I just wanted to be out of there and so when I got a scholarship from Boston to the Schillinger House, which is now the Berklee School of Music, I couldn't wait to get out of there.
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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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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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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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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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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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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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