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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, you know.
00:05The only thing that doesn't have a technique or science to it is the melody.
00:09Orchestration was something that I think I was 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.
00:21It's all this beauty.
00:23The goal is to explore, to sculpt, to shape, to push, to pull.
00:35Basically, it's based on love.
00:38I think to really get it to come off, you have to really deal with the love aspect of it.

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