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Quincy Jones

American

March 14, 1933

Musician

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I live on the Internet.

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When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.

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You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.

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I like all music. The only music I don't like is bad music.

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I believe in astrology as much as I do in genetics.

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I'm Pisces with Leo rising. The Pisces part is the dreamer. The Leo says, 'Let's execute.'

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I hope that on my tombstone it says 'Born 1933, died 2043.' I hope that's my legacy.

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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 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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Sidney Poitier and Sidney Lumet were instrumental in helping me get started as the first black composer to get name credit for movie scores.

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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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If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You're dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle.

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Everybody, no matter what vocation they're looking at, should add music as an essential to their curriculum. Music can be a very important part of your soul and your growth as a human being. It's so powerful.

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I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins.

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