But after that, in the ’70s, when I started producing for other artists, and then with Michael of course, that made me a lot of money. “Quincy Jones was the last person we thought would try to take advantage of Michael Jackson by filing a lawsuit three years after he died asking for tens of millions of dollars he wasn’t entitled to,” Jackson attorney Howard Weitzman said in a statement. An appellate court ruled on Tuesday that the Michael Jackson estate does not have to pay $6.9 million in royalties and fees to Quincy Jones. There ain’t nothing new. I’ve been watching it a long time — the ’30s to now. Legal Statement. He’d fuck a mailbox. I used to date Ivanka, you know. [Chicago mobster Sam] Giancana. But in person, the 84-year-old music-industry macher is far spikier and more complicated.

Lureena Cornwell Can Teach You How to Thrift. Women and brothers — we’re both dealing with the glass ceiling. 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. What do you think happens when you pass?You’re just gone. Jackson described being abused by his father Joe in a 1993 interview with Oprah, as well as in a 2003 interview with Martin Bashir. Richard Pryor. You’re talking about business not music, but, and I mean this respectfully, don’t some of your thoughts about music fall under the category of “back in my day”?Musical principles exist, man. Jones said in a statement at the time of the verdict that the lawsuit “was never about Michael, it was about protecting the integrity of the work we all did.”. I’m trying to isolate what you specifically believe the problem with modern pop is. Is there innovation happening in modern pop music? The frank interview touched on lighter fare, like astrology (he’s a Pisces) and dating Ivanka Trump, to why race relations and feminism are imperative movements right now. On the stand during the trial, Jones was asked by Weitzman whether he realized he was essentially suing Jackson himself. The Microsoft guy?Yeah, man. On Tuesday, May 5, 2020, a California appeals court overturned most of a 2017 jury verdict awarding Jones $9.4 million from the Michael Jackson estate. The resulting live album, Apparently, Hendrix was supposed to lend guitar work to Jones’s 1970 album, Jones arranged a version of “Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing” for Starr’s 1970 solo debut album. I have never in my life made music for money or fame. Are you as down on the state of film scoring as you are on pop?It’s not good. He was influenced by my scores. I can make a band play like a singer sings. “We’ve come a long way but we’ve got a long way to go. The rich aren’t doing enough. Not even Thriller. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. He’s doing good work all over the world. Is it hard to square what he’s been accused of with the person you know?It was all of them.

You just mentioned the Clintons, who are friends of yours. Jones gave many opinions about the music industry (namely, that it no longer exists), but is optimistic about artists like Bruno Mars, Chance the Rapper, Kendrick Lamar, Sam Smith and Mark Ronson. I had to stay home and write an hour and 55 minutes of music for the movie. “I’ve got nothing to be scared of, man.”, Currently in the midst of an extended victory lap ahead of his turning 85 in March — a Netflix documentary and a CBS special hosted by Oprah Winfrey are on the horizon — Jones, dressed in a loose sweater, dark slacks, and a jaunty scarf, talks like he has nothing to lose. Is there more to that story?It wasn’t the rockers. That said, President Trump doesn’t impress him. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes.

A jury had granted Jones the sum for the use of Jackson hits he produced that appeared in the concert film “This Is It” and Cirque du Soleil shows. You think our shit in America’s bad? He doesn’t know shit. He was as Machiavellian as they come. Alexandre Desplat — he’s good. But what about the alleged behavior of a friend of yours like Bill Cosby? You know, I met Paul McCartney when he was 21.

That’s what arranging is, and it’s a great gift. And they don’t even care they don’t have it. We’re the worst we’ve ever been, but that’s why we’re seeing people try and fix it. [Marlon] Brando used to go cha-cha dancing with us. 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. I can’t stand him. 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. Samba? On the subject of money, I have a crass question. “We knew the verdict was wrong when we heard it, and the court of appeal has completely vindicated us.”. The cats on my records were the baddest cats in the world and Hendrix didn’t want to play with them. Salsa? Greedy, man. LATE COUNTRY SINGER CADY GROVES REMEMBERED AS 'ONE OF A KIND' BY FELLOW MUSICIANS. When you think about her now, what comes to mind?That I wish I could’ve been closer to her. We want to hear from you! I’ll never forget that. The Jackson attorneys argued that the term was meant to apply to music videos and not feature films like “This Is It.”. Weinstein — he’s a jive motherfucker. He was nervous to play with Toots Thielemans, Herbie Hancock, Hubert Laws, Roland Kirk — those are some scary motherfuckers. Tevin Campbell. Fox News Flash top entertainment and celebrity headlines are here. There ain’t no fucking songs. You like Brazilian music? It’s worse there. It’s up there with “We Are the World.”.

Jones has five other children, with four other women. Everybody’s lazy.

I saw the contract after. From a strictly musical perspective, what have you done that you’re most proud of?That anything I can feel, I can notate musically. It’s the lack of formal musical knowledge on the part of the musicians?Yes!

It’s Slonimsky. And of course I don’t want that,” he wrote in his statement, which he shared via Twitter. © Copyright 2020 Rolling Stone, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Business Media, LLC. Richard Pryor. He stole a lot of songs.

On the eve of his 85th birthday, legendary record producer Quincy Jones covered a lot of controversial ground in a wide-ranging interview with New York magazine. In May 1953, jazz geniuses Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus, Max Roach, and Dizzy Gillespie were recorded — for the first and last time — together in concert at Toronto’s Massey Hall. She’s a fine motherfucker.” She had the most beautiful legs I ever saw in my life. I was so fucking tired from doing that, I couldn’t see. “I stopped drinking two years ago. James Baldwin. Can I tell you one of the greatest moments in my life?

Mark Ronson is someone who knows how to produce. 1964, when I was in Vegas, there were places I wasn’t supposed to go because I was black, but Frank [Sinatra] fixed that for me. 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.

I've had to shake his hand', Jessica Chastain to join ‘Scenes From a Marriage’ after Michelle Williams exit: Report. A representative for Jones did not immediately reply to an email seeking comment. “I’m not suing Michael,” he said. Is that really what you believe?” But every place is different. ©2020 FOX News Network, LLC. Anything! You spent the first half of your career working in jazz, which isn’t especially lucrative. In fact, right near the front of that book, there’s a 12-tone example — it’s “Giant Steps.” Everyone thinks Coltrane wrote that, he didn’t. You’re about to turn 85. I was not in favor of doing it, but the rappers wanted to record something as a tribute to me, where they’d do versions of songs that I’d done over my career. 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’s a crazy motherfucker.

This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. ", Jones also talked about racism and and feminism in America, saying "We’re the worst we’ve ever been, but that’s why we’re seeing people try and fix it. Jones originally claimed he should be paid for the "video share" of his songs when they were used in the movie, but Jackson's attorney argued that video-sharing applied to music videos, not films. It was Cyndi Lauper. What about having a fractured family? Quincy Jones attends Spotify's Inaugural Secret Genius Awards hosted by Lizzo at Vibiana on November 1, 2017 in Los Angeles, California.

He named his son after me. Racism: People are fighting it. 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”. If these people had paid attention to Shawn Fanning 20 years ago, we wouldn’t be in this mess. Music is emotion and science. Okay, let me ask you a left-field question.