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They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.

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Quincy Jones
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
Actor
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Bandleader
Composer
Conductor
Film Producer
Humanitarian
Instrumentalist
Jazz Musician
Jazz Trumpeter
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Chicago
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Quincy Delight Jones Jr.
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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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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.
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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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Some summers my father would take us down to visit our grandmother in Louisville, who was an ex-slave, Susan Jones, and she had a shotgun shack they call it, and no electricity, a well in the back, a coal stove, kerosene lamps.
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I'm just a musician and a record producer.
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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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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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The process is the most beautiful part.
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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'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 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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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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Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.
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I was the most subtle person in the world.
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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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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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I've met every freak in the business.
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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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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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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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