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Quincy Jones, a towering figure in the music and entertainment industry, passed away peacefully on Sunday at his home in Bel Air, California, surrounded by loved ones. He was 91.Born on March 14, 1933, in Chicago, Quincy Delight Jones was raised in a tumultuous environment marked by the Great Depression and his mother’s mental illness. At age 11, his discovery of an upright piano at a local recreation center in Bremerton, Washington, became the pivotal moment that redirected his life from one of petty crime to a career in music.
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00:00You can't think about a hit when you're writing it.
00:03You write what you feel.
00:05The only thing that doesn't have a technique of science to it is the melody.
00:09Orchestration was something that I think we were just born to do.
00:13I just love it so much.
00:15It's that incredible world where you can just create all the colors you want.
00:20It's all this beauty.
00:23The role is to explore, to sculpt, to shape, to push, to pull, to basically based on love.
00:38I think to really get it really to come off, you have to really deal with the love aspect of it.
00:53I think you need to keep it, you have to really see what you like and what I'm doing in the world.
01:00And we're just half a week.
01:05We're never going to do this in this world.
01:08You can't do this in this world.
01:11You can't do this in this world now.
01:14We appreciate it.
01:16The struggle with the end is the time and the time.
01:18The struggle with the end is the time and the time we have to build this world.
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