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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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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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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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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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Editing while you're writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to know about everything.
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I'm just a musician and a record producer.
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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'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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All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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Im probably the only one in the world you can name thats worked with Billie Holiday, Louie Armstrong, Ella, Duke, Miles, Dizzy, Ray Charles, Aretha, Michael Jackson, rappers. Fly Me to the Moon was played on the moon by Buzz Aldrin. Sinatra. Paul Simon. Tony Bennett. Im the only one.
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You have to know that your real home is within.
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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 process is the most beautiful part.
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I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.
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Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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I was the most subtle person in the world.
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I've met every freak in the business.
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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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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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A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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