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Quincy Jones
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Quincy Jones
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
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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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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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I'm just a musician and a record producer.
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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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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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You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
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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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Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.
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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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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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Let's not get too full of ourselves. Let's leave space for God to come into the room.
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When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.
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I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.
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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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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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My brother died of cancer two years ago (1998), renal cell carcinoma. He was my only real brother and I didn't know what to do. I'd never been so desperate in my life.
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I've met every freak in the business.
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The people who make it to the top - whether they're musicians, or great chefs, or corporate honchos - are addicted to their calling ... [they] are the ones who'd be doing whatever it is they love, even if they weren't being paid.
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