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You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.
Quincy Jones
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Quincy Jones
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
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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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The only music I don't like is bad music.
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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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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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It's very freaky in Chicago.There's something in the water there, I don't know what it is. But the actual word Chicago means, in the Indian language, garlic. It was just garlic and mosquitoes there. And that is the roughest city on the planet, and I been to every place in the world.
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A person's age can be determined by the degree of pain he experiences when he comes in contact with a new idea.
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I've met every freak in the business.
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Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.
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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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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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I'm just a musician and a record producer.
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The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.
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I was married for 36 years but now I'm free.
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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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My dream is to put together a performance of the evolution of black music with Cirque du Soleil . I would also like to do street opera and children's books. But even as I work toward these things, I want to simplify my life.
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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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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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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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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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