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A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.

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Quincy Jones
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
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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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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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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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