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I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrang

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. – Quincy Jones

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I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day. – Quincy Jones

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If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. Youre dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle. – Quincy Jones

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

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Bad psychoanalysis would say I enjoyed pleasing people, working really hard and pleasing people, which is probably related to my father in some way. But I really liked working hard. When I worked at Disneyland, Id do 12 hours straight and go home thrilled. – Steve Martin

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