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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.

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Quincy Jones
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
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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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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 song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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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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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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I go to the favelas in Brazil. It's the same in the South Side of Chicago. It's the same, or just more violent. We're trying to get them to stop selling dope. You see kids with AK-47s, and nine-year-olds with nine millimeters. You know, they don't play. They make us look like nuns.
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Editing while you're writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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I was the most subtle person in the world.
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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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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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Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.
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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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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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