The Modernist wrote:"In 1988 you co-produced Gladys Knight's comeback album which won a grammy. Can you tell us what you remember about that?
"I ain't tellin' you nothing about that! See I'm from the ghetto, just like that other cat Jim Bowen..crazy motherfucker! Me and him used to swing around the Southside, with Fozie Bear...you know the cat from The Muppets. Me and Fozie knew each other back from the Duke Ellington days. Cat taught Dizzy everything he knew. Anyway Pete Sampras comes walking in, and you know I respect him for his tennis, but he can't be tellin' me about no sax arrangement, so he's saying how I should be producing his album with Elton John to get that reeky slink oompah sound, but see that's all Stravinsky shit and it ain't what I do. I was banging Princess Grace of Monaco at the time so I had my hands full doing that and inventing dubstep! So Bowen ,who's connected to the Gambino family, says to Sampras "Nothing in this game for two in a bed" and shoots him in the goddamn knees. I said "motherfucker!"
And I'm telling you this because that's how I became President of the music industry. I got my shit done smart. And we gotta save the children".
Quincy Jones - What a Dude!
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Let U be the set of all united sets, K be the set of the kids and D be the set of things divided.
Then it follows that ∀ k ∈ K: K ∈ U ⇒ k ∉ D
Then it follows that ∀ k ∈ K: K ∈ U ⇒ k ∉ D
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Ranking Ted wrote:He’s a gas, isn’t he? For some reason I thought he was uptight, square. How wrong can you be?
Read his autobiography a few years ago and he didn't come across as uptight and square
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Gotta agree with Cyndi Lauper about "We Are the World" being rubbish though.
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Ranking Ted wrote:He did a similar interview with GQ recently as well.
https://www.gq.com/story/quincy-jones-has-a-story
He pulls out a book published a few years ago filled with photos and memories from his life, and he tells me about the time Bono invited him to come along to the Vatican in 1999 to meet Pope John Paul. "All the guys in the Vatican had these Vatican black shoes," Jones recalls, but not the Pope. "He had on some burgundy wingtips, man, with thin tan rib socks, man. We had to go and kiss his hand before we left. And when I kissed his hand, I looked down and saw those shoes and it just fell out of my mouth. I said, 'Oh, my man's got some pimp shoes on.' And he heard me."
GQ:Isn't that sacrilegious, telling the Pope he has pimp shoes?
"Oh, hell no. He's just a man. I didn't tell him."
GQ: But he heard you?
"Yeah. When he died, I grabbed USA Today, and Bono said, 'Quincy said he had some lovely loafers on.'
Entertaining, but it makes no sense. Reminds you of someone's tweets.
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Q's still mad that McCartney dated Peggy Lipton in the mid '60s.
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So no one cares that Marlon Brando had sex with Richard Pryor?
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And Marvin Gaye!
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Ranking Ted wrote:He did a similar interview with GQ recently as well.
https://www.gq.com/story/quincy-jones-has-a-story
re. Ray Charles, Q wrote: I've seen him shooting in his testicles, man. Because heroin's a strange drug. Ray, all of his veins were dried up and black, and he's shooting himself in the testicles, man.
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Let U be the set of all united sets, K be the set of the kids and D be the set of things divided.
Then it follows that ∀ k ∈ K: K ∈ U ⇒ k ∉ D
Then it follows that ∀ k ∈ K: K ∈ U ⇒ k ∉ D
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Harvey K-Tel wrote:So no one cares that Marlon Brando had sex with Richard Pryor?
Pryor's estate came out with a statement yesterday. This is not verbatim, but it read that there were so many ludes going around in those days that people would fuck a radiator if they could and confirmed that Brando and Pryor had sex.
Don't fake the funk on a nasty dunk!
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Matt Wilson wrote:And Marvin Gaye!
Yeah, but that was sexual healing.
Don't fake the funk on a nasty dunk!
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Where would rock 'n' roll be without feedback?
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The 84-year-old record producer says he had a long talk with hisdaughterslawyers about what he said, and he is sorry.
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Still makes no sense.
How are 1) abstaining from alcohol and 2) having a bad memory related?
Sounds like someone's tweets.
The 84-year-old record producer said he stopped drinking a few years back and his memory of past events is not as sharp as it should be...
How are 1) abstaining from alcohol and 2) having a bad memory related?
Sounds like someone's tweets.
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"My daughters, man. I LOVE those motherfuckers."