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The process is the most beautiful part.

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Quincy Jones
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
Actor
Autobiographer
Bandleader
Composer
Conductor
Film Producer
Humanitarian
Instrumentalist
Jazz Musician
Jazz Trumpeter
Music Arranger
Chicago
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Quincy Delight Jones Jr.
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I improvised my life along the way - I just moved step-by-step. And I knew that if I got better, something would happen.
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You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.
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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 was the most subtle person in the world.
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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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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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I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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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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Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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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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Editing while you're writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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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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Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.
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I'm just a musician and a record producer.
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The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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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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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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I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, Ain't that the truth.
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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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