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Excellence isn't an act, it's a habit
Quincy Jones
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Quincy Jones
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
Actor
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Jazz Musician
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Quincy Delight Jones Jr.
Quincy Delight Jones Jr
Quincy Jones Jr.
Excellence
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I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.
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I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.
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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 act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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I was the most subtle person in the world.
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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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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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Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
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I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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