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Michael (Jackson) was so shy, he'd sit down and sing behind the couch with his back to me while I sat with my hands over my eyes-and the lights off.

Quincy Jones

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Quincy Jones
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
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I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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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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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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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.
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You have to know that your real home is within.
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The only music I don't like is bad music.
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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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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.
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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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Excellence isn't an act, it's a habit
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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 was the most subtle person in the world.
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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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Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.
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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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I'm just a musician and a record producer.
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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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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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