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The process is the most beautiful part.
Quincy Jones
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Quincy Jones
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
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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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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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I got to trumpet, finally. That's why I love to write for brass, and [Count] Basie and [Frank] Sinatra and all that stuff, 'cause that's just like part of my DNA.
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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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Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.
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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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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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I don't remember feeling love.
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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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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 was the most subtle person in the world.
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I'm just a musician and a record producer.
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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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It was messed up, because in 1947 my family moved to Seattle and I had to get up at 5:00 o'clock in the morning to catch the ferry back to Bremerton every morning because I was Boys Club president.
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You want your parents to say, Hey, I'm proud of you. When you don't hear that, you learn to compensate. You say, Hell, I don't need their approval. If I get my music right, I'll have everyone else's approval. I didn't understand it then, but I now know that's what happened to me.
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To me it's no accident that all the symphony orchestras around the world tune up to the note A. And A is 440 cycles, except in Germany where it's 444. But the universe is 450 cycles. So what I'm trying to say is, I think it's God's voice, melody especially. Counterpoint, retrograde inversion, harmony... that's the science and the craft.
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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 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 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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