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

~Quincy Jones

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Seattle is like a global gumbo, a melting pot with all kinds of people - the rich, the poor, white people, some Chinese, Filipino, Jewish and black people - they're all here.

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Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.

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

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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.

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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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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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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.

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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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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: March 14th, 1933

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