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Let's not get too full of ourselves. Let's leave space for God to come into the room.
Quincy Jones
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Quincy Jones
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
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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 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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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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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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We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.
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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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They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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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 was the most subtle person in the world.
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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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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.
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I was married for 36 years but now I'm free.
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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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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 went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.
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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 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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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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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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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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