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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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It's easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.
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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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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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I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.
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