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

Quincy Jones

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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.
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The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.
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You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
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All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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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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Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.'
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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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I'm just a musician and a record producer.
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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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After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it's worse than ever.
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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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I don't remember feeling love.
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You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.
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Benny [Carter] opened the eyes of a lot of producers and studios, so that they could understand that you could go to blacks for other things outside of blues and barbecue. He's a total musician. He was the pioneer, he was the foundation. He made it possible for that doubt to be taken away.
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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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I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to know about everything.
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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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