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" I don't remember feeling love. "
Quincy Jones
Feeling
Remember
Love
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" I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every night club, listened to every band that came through, because in those days we didn't have MTV, we didn't have television. "
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Dance
Night
" Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people. "
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Culture
" When you work with Ray Charles, Billy Eckstine and Frank Sinatra, and you tell them to jump without a net, you better know what you're talking about. Thank God I was ready for it. "
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Work
Know
" I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me. "
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Older
Years
Ray
" I'm a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap. "
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Rap
Hip-Hop
" 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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Reading
Cats
" I believe in astrology as much as I do in genetics. "
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Believe
Astrology
I Believe
" 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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Music
You
Play
" It slaps your dignity just right. I loved the idea of these proud, dignified black men, and I saw the older ones wounded, and it wounded me ten times as much because I couldn't stand seeing them hurt like this. "
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Black
Me
Men
" I never cared about money or fame, and I don't care now. I follow the groove, and money always follows. "
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Fame
Care
Always
" 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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God
World
Think
" All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls. "
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Love
Guys
Want
" My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade. "
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Memories
Pinned
Being
" I believe that a hundred years from now, when people look back at the 20th century, they will look at Miles, Bird, Clifford Brown, Ella and Dizzy, among elders as our Mozarts, our Chopins, our Bachs and Beethovens. "
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Look
People
Believe
" 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! "
Quincy Jones
Song
Top
Good
" I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home. "
Quincy Jones
Away
Writing
Seattle
" I tell my kids and I tell proteges, always have humility when you create and grace when you succeed, because it's not about you. You are a terminal for a higher power. As soon as you accept that, you can do it forever. "
Quincy Jones
Humility
Grace
Power
" I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the machine; the machine works for you.' "
Quincy Jones
Son
Work
Tools
" It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do. "
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Trouble
You
Amazing
" When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident. "
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Passenger
Terrible
Accident
" I don't ever want to grow up. That's boring. "
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Ever
Up
Want
" 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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Looking
Powerful
Soul
" I was married for 36 years but now I'm free. "
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Free
Married
Now
" I'd been in love before - I was always in love. "
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Always
Love
Been
" I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America. "
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Black
Time
Music
" 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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Good
Imagination
World
" I lost my mother when I was 7 and they put her in a mental hospital. My brother and I watched her being taken away in a strait jacket. That's something you never forget. And my stepmother was like in the movie 'Precious.' I couldn't handle it. So I said to myself, 'I don't have a mother. I don't need one. I'm going to let music be my mother.' "
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Brother
Music
Mother
" We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don't think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again. "
Quincy Jones
Care
Honey
See
" I'm Pisces with Leo rising. The Pisces part is the dreamer. The Leo says, 'Let's execute.' "
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Says
Dreamer
Leo
" 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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Myself
Life
Never