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The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.

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Quincy Jones
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
Actor
Autobiographer
Bandleader
Composer
Conductor
Film Producer
Humanitarian
Instrumentalist
Jazz Musician
Jazz Trumpeter
Music Arranger
Chicago
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Quincy Delight Jones Jr.
Quincy Delight Jones Jr
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Arranging

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Jazz has the power to make men forget their differences and come together... Jazz is the personification of transforming overwhelmingly negative circumstances into freedom, friendship, hope, and dignity.
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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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I was married for 36 years but now I'm free.
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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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The only music I don't like is bad music.
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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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All the jazz guys had interracial relationships, and even the ladies did. Over the years, interracial relationships have been a hip, almost defiant thing, a way of saying Nobody can put a boundary around me.
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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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They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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I've met every freak in the business.
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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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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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Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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The process is the most beautiful part.
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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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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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I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young, every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every night club, listened to every band that came through, because in those days we didn't have MTV, we didn't have television.
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