A Quote by Quincy Jones
Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.
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I got to trumpet, finally. That's why I love to write for brass, and [Count] Basie and [Frank] Sinatra and all that stuff, 'cause that's just like part of my DNA.
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