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You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.

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Quincy Jones
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
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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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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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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.
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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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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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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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Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.
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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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The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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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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I was the most subtle person in the world.
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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 brother died of cancer two years ago (1998), renal cell carcinoma. He was my only real brother and I didn't know what to do. I'd never been so desperate in my life.
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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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They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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I've met every freak in the business.
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