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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 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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Let's not get too full of ourselves. Let's leave space for God to come into the room.
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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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Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.
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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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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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I was the most subtle person in the world.
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The only music I don't like is bad music.
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Editing while you're writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
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Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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Benny [Carter] opened the eyes of a lot of producers and studios, so that they could understand that you could go to blacks for other things outside of blues and barbecue. He's a total musician. He was the pioneer, he was the foundation. He made it possible for that doubt to be taken away.
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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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A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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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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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, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.'
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You have to know that your real home is within.
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All the jazz guys had interracial relationships, and even the ladies did. Over the years, interracial relationships have been a hip, almost defiant thing, a way of saying Nobody can put a boundary around me.
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When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.
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