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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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My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
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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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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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Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.
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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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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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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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It's very freaky in Chicago.There's something in the water there, I don't know what it is. But the actual word Chicago means, in the Indian language, garlic. It was just garlic and mosquitoes there. And that is the roughest city on the planet, and I been to every place in the world.
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We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.
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