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Excellence isn't an act, it's a habit

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Quincy Jones
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
Actor
Autobiographer
Bandleader
Composer
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Film Producer
Humanitarian
Instrumentalist
Jazz Musician
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Quincy Delight Jones Jr.
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I used to practice piano for hours, and now, with a synthesizer, you can input the music and the machine perfects the song. That's why we have so many people in the music business who should be plumbers. They don't really understand music because they haven't been trained.
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They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that's the bottom line.
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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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A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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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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Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
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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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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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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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I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.
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Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.'
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The only music I don't like is bad music.
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Some summers my father would take us down to visit our grandmother in Louisville, who was an ex-slave, Susan Jones, and she had a shotgun shack they call it, and no electricity, a well in the back, a coal stove, kerosene lamps.
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The process is the most beautiful part.
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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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The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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I'm just a musician and a record producer.
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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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