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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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Quincy Jones
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
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Im probably the only one in the world you can name thats worked with Billie Holiday, Louie Armstrong, Ella, Duke, Miles, Dizzy, Ray Charles, Aretha, Michael Jackson, rappers. Fly Me to the Moon was played on the moon by Buzz Aldrin. Sinatra. Paul Simon. Tony Bennett. Im the only one.
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I've met every freak in the business.
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A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.
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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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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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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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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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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.
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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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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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Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to come along and upset everybody.
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Editing while you're writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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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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The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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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'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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