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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
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Jazz Musician
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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 was married for 36 years but now I'm free.
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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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