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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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It's easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.
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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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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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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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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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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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Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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The people who make it to the top - whether they're musicians, or great chefs, or corporate honchos - are addicted to their calling ... [they] are the ones who'd be doing whatever it is they love, even if they weren't being paid.
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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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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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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.
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Michael (Jackson) was so shy, he'd sit down and sing behind the couch with his back to me while I sat with my hands over my eyes-and the lights off.
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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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I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.
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Editing while you're writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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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 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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