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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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Quincy Jones
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
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The only music I don't like is bad music.
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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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A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that's the bottom line.
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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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There's power in the collective. If you don't believe me, just watch a symphony orchestra with a conductor and 120 people who are thinking about exactly the same thing at the same moment - no babies, no stock markets, no mortgages. Just 32nd notes.
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The process is the most beautiful part.
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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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Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.
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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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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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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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Excellence isn't an act, it's a habit
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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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A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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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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I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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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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You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
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