That’s Coltrane done in a pop song. God walks out of the room when you’re thinking about money. Already a subscriber? “That’s true about rap, that it’s the same phrase over and over and over again,” he said. It’s fucked up. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. But California's 2nd District Court of Appeal ruled that the jury misinterpreted a contract and took away some $6.9 million that jurors had said Jones was owed. Paul was the worst bass player I ever heard. The song is the power; the singer is the messenger. Well, who’s doing good work?Bruno Mars. Jones has a truly admirable record of humanitarian and philanthropic work, going back to his support of Dr. Martin Luther King in the early 1960s. We used to jam all night. No. freestyle from 1997, Watch XIX raise hell in a vacant high school in their new “Kismet” video, Quincy Jones on Michael Jackson: “He stole a lot of songs”. Who did it? What’s misunderstood about Michael?I used to kill him about the plastic surgery, man. When I go to Dublin, Bono makes me stay at his castle because Ireland is so racist. ], Why not?I don’t know. What about outside of music? I was thinking of a section where you describe having a nervous breakdown not long after Thriller. The three-part series will premiere in early 2021. On the subject of money, I have a crass question. A former model and current designer, Kidada is the daughter of Jones and his ex-wife Peggy Lipton. “I have already reached out to my friends privately, but when you live a public life, you have a responsibility to be an example, & since I do lead a public life, I wanted to make a public apology.”, — Quincy Jones (@QuincyDJones) February 22, 2018, The music legend apologized for offending his friends and family, and thanked them for their “grace.” He especially thanked his six daughters, whom he said staged a “family intervention” following the two interviews. 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You\'ll receive the next newsletter in your inbox. Here are some highlights from the conversation: Michael Jackson lifted music from Donna Summer. He was as Machiavellian as they come.". I am an imperfect human & I’m not afraid to say it. I’ve never been so creative. A bully. Greedy,” he said. Quincy Jones calls Ivanka Trump "a fine motherfucker" and her father "a fucking idiot" in new wide-ranging interview. I appreciate what I got. What are other people not seeing in Hillary, for example, that you see?It’s because there’s a side of her — when you keep secrets, they backfire. They don’t fucking care. It’s the lack of formal musical knowledge on the part of the musicians?Yes! The verbose 28-time Grammy winner had plenty of hot takes about the musical legends he’s worked with over decades, from Michael Jackson to the Beatles to Cream. I didn’t have to learn a thing to do Michael Jackson. “It was really bad,” he recalled during the latter. He stole a lot of songs. If you know where you come from, it’s easier to get where you’re going. Off the coast of South Africa, where Durban is, was the coast of China. The cats on my records were the baddest cats in the world and Hendrix didn’t want to play with them. He name-drops, he scolds, he praises, and he tells (and retells) stories about his very famous friends. He had a problem with his looks because his father told him he was ugly and abused him. National Treasure Tiffany ‘New York’ Pollard Returns to VH1 for Reunion Special. You could spend a million dollars on a piano part and it won’t make you a million dollars back. “I’m not suing Michael,” he said. It’s worse there. Quincy Jones' win in a lawsuit regarding the late Michael Jackson's music has been overturned by a California appeals court. “So many people have tried to take advantage of Michael and mischaracterize him since his death," Jackson estate co-executor John Branca said in a statement Tuesday. You can only get so far without technique. What’d you think when you first heard rock music?Rock ain’t nothing but a white version of rhythm and blues, motherfucker. He could dance his ass off. But you know who sings and plays just like Hendrix? A list of fundraisers you can support right now. A counterappeal was filled by Jones, claiming he should have been allowed to claim financial elder abuse in the trial court -- but his appeal was rejected. "That’s Coltrane done in a pop song. Phat Farm was the fashion label founded by hip-hop impresario Russell Simmons in 1992. No. “I remember once … Ringo had taken three hours for a four-bar thing he was trying to fix on a song. You’re bringing up all the good subjects now! Tommy Hilfiger, who was working with my daughter Kidada, said, “Ivanka wants to have dinner with you.” I said, “No problem. Send us a tip using our anonymous form. Joe Kennedy — he was a bad man — he came to Frank to have him talk to Giancana about getting votes. Quincy Jones (left) and Michael Jackson (right). I love it. Really? But the music business is still too full of these old-school bean counters. The South has always been fucked up, but you know where you stand. Ronnie came in for 15 minutes and tore it up. Sign up for our newsletter. What was your greatest musical innovation?Everything I’ve done. She had a manager come over to me and say, “The rockers don’t like the song.” I know how that shit works. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. We’ve all done one of them calls at four o’clock in the morning.”, Samantha Bee’s ‘Panel of Losers’ Won Late Night This Week. This interview has been edited and condensed from two conversations. Bullshit. Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for Spotify, 6ix9ine reportedly sued over 2015 child sexual performance video, A new Pepsi ad features a Notorious B.I.G. Today’s music business is lazy, he said. Eddie Van Halen Once Asked Ozzy Osbourne to Join the Band, “I think he was a bit drunk. How so?Greedy, man. But who knew what Woodstock would turn out to be? The state’s 2nd District Court of Appeal ruled that the jury misinterpreted a contract that it was the judge’s job to interpret anyway. The notes don’t lie, man. Her dementia praecox could’ve been cured with vitamin B, but she couldn’t get it because she was black. He’d fuck a mailbox. The legendary producer, who turns 85 in March, talked about his appreciation of jazz, the changing nature of racism and feminism in America, and his work with Michael Jackson, who he says "stole" more than people realized. I can’t believe I still get to be involved in things like this. It’s a joke. Hell no. T-Pain, man, he didn’t pay attention to the details. This combination photo shows Quincy Jones at the world premiere of "Black Godfather" in Los Angeles on June 3, 2019, left, and Michael Jackson at a press conference in London on March 5, 2009. He was the most charming motherfucker you ever met. You can’t be like that. There ain’t nothing new. The actor-writer-director has two very different new projects in very different media. The court also rejected a counter-appeal from the 87-year-old Jones arguing that the trial court should have allowed him to make a claim of financial elder abuse. I’ve been watching it a long time — the ’30s to now. [Harvey] Weinstein. [Donna Summer’s] 'State of Independence' and 'Billie Jean.' Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. A few years back there was a quote you supposedly gave — I couldn’t find the source of it, so maybe it’s apocryphal — where you dismissed rap as being a bunch of four-bar loops. This time, the singer-songwriter’s challenge to listen comes as a gift. Marvin Gaye.”. Richard Pryor. Ringo comes back and says, “George, can you play it back for me one more time?” So George did, and Ringo says, “That didn’t sound so bad.” And I said, “Yeah, motherfucker because it ain’t you.” Great guy, though. And the biggest gimmick in the world is confession: “You tell me what you did wrong and it’ll be okay.” Come on. Market data provided by Factset. That book started all the jazz guys improvising in 12-tone. Richard Pryor. There are African qualities to Chinese music, Japanese music, too, with the Kodo drumming. I had to stay home and write an hour and 55 minutes of music for the movie. The court found that amount to have been wrongly granted to the music mogul. He’s a fucking idiot.”, Race relations have a long way to go in the United States.“I’ve been watching it a long time – the ’30s to now,” Jones said.