I'm just a musician and a record producer. - Quincy Jones

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I feel a real sense of duty to use the voice and the platform I've been afforded by my fame to speak out for those whose voices don't get a chance to be heard.

Quincy Jones

I'm just a musician and a record producer.

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A person's age can be determined by the degree of pain he experiences when he comes in contact with a new idea.

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Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush

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It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.

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My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.

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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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I didn't audition or anything like that. But I went into John Loganhis office. . . It was his screening room in his office, actually, and I sat and schmoozed with him for about two minutes, which I think is standard, and, y'know, we got on fine.

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

To awaken a man who is deceived as to his own merit is to do him as bad a turn as that done to the Athenian madman who was happy in believing that all the ships touching at the port belonged to him.

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Shakira

I feel a real sense of duty to use the voice and the platform I've been afforded by my fame to speak out for those whose voices don't get a chance to be heard.

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John Ridley

As a coping mechanism, or as a way to make a little hard count by shilling demons in the shadows, I try not to belittle the thought process of the conspiracy theorists. As a cocktail waitress in Vegas once schooled me: never get down on anybody else's hustle.

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B.K.S. Iyengar

Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.

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