Quincy Jones Quotes

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Quincy Jones

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 14, 1933

When I was 14, I would sit up in my room and write till my eyes would bleed.

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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.

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I live on the Internet.

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I travel like a maniac. I travel more than anyone I know. I love learning the languages.

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Cherish your mistakes, and you won't keep making them over and over again. It's the same with heartbreaks and girls and everything else. Cherish them, and they'll put some wealth in you.

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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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