Quincy Jones

American musician and composer

Birthday: March 14, 1933

Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

Age: 85 years old

Sign: Pisces

About Quincy Jones

Quincy Jones is an American musician involved in various aspects of the entertainment industry including record producer, conductor, and television producer.

Trivia

Quincy Jones is the founder of the magazine Vibe. Quincy has been nominated for 79 Grammy Awards and has won 27 Grammy Awards including the Grammy Legend Award in 2001. Time magazine has called Quincy the most influential jazz musicians of the 20th century. Quincy plays a number of instruments, including the french horn, trumpet, piano, and synthesizer.

Personal

Quincy has been married three times and has seven children. One of his children, daughter Rashida Jones, co-stars in the hit comedy television series “Parks and Recreation”. His son, Quincy Jones III, has followed in his father’s footsteps and is a successful record producer, musician, and composer.

Quincy Jones Photo Gallery

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Quincy Jones at a performance of The Hot Chocolate Nutcracker in December 2010.

Author

Angela George at http://www.flickr.com/photos/sharongraphics/

Source

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:QuincyJonesDec10.jpg

Attribution

Angela George

License

CC BY-SA 3.0

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DAVOS/SWITZERLAND, 21JAN04 - Quincy Jones, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Quincy Jones Listen Up Foundation, USA, takes off his ties at the entrance of the Davos Congress Center during the Annual Meeting 2004 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 21, 2004. Copyright by World Economic Forum swiss-image.ch/Photo by Andy Mettler

Author

World Economic Forum from Cologny, Switzerland

Source

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Quincy_Jones,_Davos.jpg

License

CC BY-SA 2.0

Famous quotes by Quincy Jones

Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.Quincy Jones

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

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

I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.Quincy Jones

If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.Quincy Jones

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

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

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

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Quincy Jones' Popularity

Quincy Jones is a famous American musician and composer, who was born on March 14, 1933. As a person born on this date, Quincy Jones is listed in our database as the 6th most popular celebrity for the day (March 14) and the 11th most popular for the year (1933).

People born on March 14 fall under the Zodiac sign of Pisces, the Fish. Quincy Jones is the 118th most popular Pisces.

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