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Quincy Jones
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
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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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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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My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
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Im probably the only one in the world you can name thats worked with Billie Holiday, Louie Armstrong, Ella, Duke, Miles, Dizzy, Ray Charles, Aretha, Michael Jackson, rappers. Fly Me to the Moon was played on the moon by Buzz Aldrin. Sinatra. Paul Simon. Tony Bennett. Im the only one.
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Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.
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Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it's worse than ever.
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You have to know that your real home is within.
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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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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 never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.
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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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A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape!
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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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Editing while you're writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
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Eight kids and a stepmother, and I just wanted to be out of there and so when I got a scholarship from Boston to the Schillinger House, which is now the Berklee School of Music, I couldn't wait to get out of there.
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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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