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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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Quincy Jones
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
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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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Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
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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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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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Some summers my father would take us down to visit our grandmother in Louisville, who was an ex-slave, Susan Jones, and she had a shotgun shack they call it, and no electricity, a well in the back, a coal stove, kerosene lamps.
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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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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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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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All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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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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Excellence isn't an act, it's a habit
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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 act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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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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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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