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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.
Quincy Jones
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Quincy Jones
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
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To me it's no accident that all the symphony orchestras around the world tune up to the note A. And A is 440 cycles, except in Germany where it's 444. But the universe is 450 cycles. So what I'm trying to say is, I think it's God's voice, melody especially. Counterpoint, retrograde inversion, harmony... that's the science and the craft.
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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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I got to trumpet, finally. That's why I love to write for brass, and [Count] Basie and [Frank] Sinatra and all that stuff, 'cause that's just like part of my DNA.
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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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China's got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain't right.
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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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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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I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you're supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.
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I used to practice piano for hours, and now, with a synthesizer, you can input the music and the machine perfects the song. That's why we have so many people in the music business who should be plumbers. They don't really understand music because they haven't been trained.
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I don't remember feeling love.
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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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All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.
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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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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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You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.
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My brother died of cancer two years ago (1998), renal cell carcinoma. He was my only real brother and I didn't know what to do. I'd never been so desperate in my life.
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