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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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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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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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Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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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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I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.
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Excellence isn't an act, it's a habit
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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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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.
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I don't remember feeling love.
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Editing while you're writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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My dream is to put together a performance of the evolution of black music with Cirque du Soleil . I would also like to do street opera and children's books. But even as I work toward these things, I want to simplify my life.
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I improvised my life along the way - I just moved step-by-step. And I knew that if I got better, something would happen.
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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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The only music I don't like is bad music.
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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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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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Communications are making this one world. Back in the day, 400-500 years ago, nobody knew what anyone else was doing. It's on the 6 O'Clock news now. Now we can say, Oh, that's the way they live. Oh, they do that!! Opportunities, the chance to bring about change, it's all based on communication. Communication and jet planes.
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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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