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♪ ♪ we are e world s life's work s takeus to new hghts. as a world renown musian, and film oducer, director, record executive a philanthropist, quiy jones is unstopble. >> the record of the yearis. >>he gmmy goe to quincy jones and michael jackson. >> quincy joans. >> nominated for 79 grammys, jones has taken home 27. >>e waalsoust honoreat the tribeca film festival. for aareer spanning 60 years. jone has disvered and worked wi some ofhe bigge sta i recently sat down wh quincy nes to tkbout his legacy. >> you have had career that spans over six decades. u play with everody. u ha done jt about everhing hod you gethere? >> don't know. as the say in chinese, ebu,

ebu,hicheans step by st. one stept aime and i couldn't -- nobody in the wor could prect wt happened in life. i coul't predict it, m,f what happened toork with every id i ever h from billy holiday,ay charl and came up tether between 14 and 1 cab cal obey, jay mcsham, buoy, day duke, rayharl, aretha paul simon,nk sinatra, michael jackson. >> that's the whole 20th century of black muc. >> ludicrou sop dogg, everybody. credible, man. it is a blessing and i receive it very gracefully. >> when you got intohe music business, you began as an artist. playing the trumpet. how did you t your first big break? >> i wanted tbe gaster until i was 12. >> before music, you wantedo be a gangster? >> yeah. my d wasaster carpenter in

chicago in the depression. five million black people and he was a carnter for the city's mo serious triple owe gees on the planet, the jon boyce. i got my medal swihblade, ven years d, ice pick in my head >> so wh gotou out of the gang life and into the music? >> oh, no, no. my father w busy all the time. my mothe was put in a mental home. so he wasever home to look out afte us. he was working and all. he was working with these guys. capone found out that they started a policy rackein the first ack-owned businesses. the fivend de stes. they made $100 million one year in the '30s. that's like $1 billion, you know he freaked out. he derestimated them. they -- he ran them out of chicago to mexico and the nex

day, my father came and got my brother and i and put us on the trailway bus with him and wt to the nohwest. >> thank god. and we are still going to the by gangsters, right? doing everythi, burning down dancealls and breaking into stores and everything, man. weroke into an arm one weekend. we heard they d this lemon meringue pie and ice-cream. so we broke in and ate up all that and got tired and full and artights. >> iide the pce? y'all still in there? >> yeah. we had some pie fight and we were iividlly breakg into roochls parately. i broke into this supervisor's room. i saw a spend et piano and almost closed the door. thank god sething above sd go bkn the door, idio i bent over to the pian

i knew when hit it that that s what i would do the rest of my life. every op of blood in the cl of my bodcould tel me that. i would play after school, played t ba, horn, pickhorn, french horn, tro bones. i could be up front with the majorettes in the marching band. reallyanted to play trumpet. i finally got to trumt. >> most people can't span that range likeou do. you do everything from jazto symphony orchestra. is that thing that somebody mentored you to do? no, no, no. in a wa ray did. in seattle, during the '40 y had t play everything from jesh weddings, bar mitzvs and strippers and the black clubs. we played everything. i am glad of that sa za, by souza. th lady i went with, who was the men f for stravinsky,

leonard bernstein, i studied wh her in paris for five years. she said, there are only 12 notes. you learn what evebody did them until the send 13, you will be okay. nothing has ever bothered me no matt whethert is big band, bee-bop, do-op, hip-hop, no prlem. >> it is hd to go anywhe without finding you imprint, whether it is television or music. >> did you imagine when yowere aying that trumpet you would be erywhere? >>bsolutely not. i have learned to --rt linkleer used to live xt do to me before he died. he used to say to me, quincy, just make god laugh. don't make plans. we have nothing to do with it. i havelways believedt sic is, we are terminals for a higher power. i can feel it. it goes rough you, man.

i get curious how you guys get all these ego. the ego is the higher power coming throu you. i believe that. as you go to your creativity wi humity with grace >> we will be right back. >> would you consider doing a record for me? i said, man, a you crazy? ishe pope a catholic. i was in haii two days later and worked with him the rest of his life.

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quinescentenial geus. >>e is so long and cooand deep. i am sureverybody has said that. he is the coolest pern inhe world. >> everything he has done has a mind towar progress, socia progss, cultural progress, mang change. thinthat the greatest gi he has given to the world. >> welcome back to ""our world with black enterprise."" we are here withr. quincy jones. the legend. not only are you legend but yohave had a whole career working with othegen. let me know wh it was like working with them. i have to start with ray charles. >> ray was like my broth from another mother. ray came into the town in flida. he had sight until he was six. he had chickenpox and scratched his eyes when he was in florid he went to the white house, they wouldn't let him in. when he got to the black house, he was blind. he was like 100 years older than

me. he was living atome. i was 14. he had his own apartment, two pair of shoes, two pair of suits, t girlfends, a record player then and everything. ray was very independent. his mother taught m to not be like with the canes anthe dogs. ray uld go shopping on his own, whater. the streets,ross the lights. i never could figure out how he couldo tt. the only time ray got blind was whenherer pretty girls around. stevie does the same thing today. i bust him all the time. you t all blin man >> part of their rap, man. >> you meet my girliend they are beautiful, though. we had the timof our life n. >> what about frk sinatra? >> plee, m, that's my brother, another brother. i was working in paris running a record company and studying.

ony i me in. they said, graceelly's offe called from moco. ey want mr. satrand the house bd and lucky poue and all those guys. so we took them down. we played with frank at the sporting club for grace kelly and cary grant and all those people. afterix words, he said, good b, kid, cuckoo. four years ter, get a call from his wife. e first guy that called me "q." i am directing a film and i just heard the record you didith base with clark howard. it is a waltz. he said, i like the way you d

i put it in 4/4. id, that'she way i want to do it. he said,ould you consider doing a recordith my and bay? i said, man, are y craz is the pope a catholic i was in hawaiiwo days later and worked with him the rest of his life. >> let me run one more past you. i can't not talk about micha jason. >> what else is there to say? it in the music, man. we worked on the wiz. he said to m i going to do an album on epic. could you help me find a producer? i said, i dot want to talk about . you doha the song and the vie yet. he was on down the roawith ana. i was working to get him a song. we finally got the song, you can't wi with the crows an all,he scarecrow. i started watching him after that a seeing w focused he was.

he knew everybody's dialogue, all ofheirongs, all of their steps, the choreogphy, everything he was so on the case. i was ting to find stuff i him that hadn't been exposed to the ckso5, you know. i realized at the oscars one year and he san benhich i a loveongutt is a love song to a rat. i had him turn the song ound, she's out of my life. a frnd of me wrote when his wife left him. i was saving it forsinatra. i said, i'm goi to give it to michael. michael ng it and every tape he didhe cried. that w on the rerd. >> that worlincluded off the wall, thriller and bad, three of the most successful records in music history. coulyou imagine that? when y'all wen inhe booth the first time? >> no. i just make musichat i li that's the only thi you can do. naturally, going for thethroat, my least favorite records are mber 6, and 11.

i don't wanto be number two. >> right. >> you get sucssddicted to. yo do. >> we wi b right ba. >> always making up sff and ding behind an a/k/a. >> always making up sff and ding behind an a/k/a. >> you c't listen to

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there is no word f quincy. it legacy. i am thankful to be here and i honed tbe here. i am trying be the next. if i was evetrying to the next, his blueprint and his works eak for themselves. >> he isne of the greatest iconthate have living in the uned stes. his inflnce on music, culture, worlpeac he is jus he is quincy. one of the tngs u have done and really laid a pathway for her people behind you is you ve taught us to own ou own stuff, whether it is copyrightsmasters, negatives or film. >> right. >> you have owned your own stf. >> if you don'have the copyright, negative or a masters, you are not in the muc busiss. the val is in ownship of thosethgs, the recoings, you know, orhe ftage or

copyrigh of songs. >> how did you knoto dthat >> i learned early, in new york. they te you out quick. sinatra says, if y can make it here, yocan make ianywhere. they tyou t fast. i would go right to the record date and i would sign the contract and they said, you can y anything you want, you are ly getting 1%, y know. i would sign it and they would put somebody ee's me as the writer and plish it. they wou sel the song before i walk out the door. i go, we're not going to have that. that is some plaation stuff. we don't do that >> for sure. >> it took me a few years, cause everybody was going rough that back then. that theay it was. black entertainersere at the peak in the '50s. >> as you think out the ne generationf arsts, who are some of e folk that you see carrying the torch

who do you sees as theext big people? >> we are at amazing crossroad right now. number one, we are at thend the recordg industry as we knewt. that hurts me a lo it's all over the worl it is 95% to 90% piracy. the kids just take theic now. they jt take it. >> do you thk the will be a recording industry in years? >> no. willay in ten years, there won't be o. we are going to have to reinvent it. >> i can't bieve it. i'm looking at it com strght at me. stf t people in the business a like nothing is wron they arerong. 100 les an hou you can't look at everything like a big problem. it's a pzle. we are going tdo a deal with thnew president of china, whose wife is an opera singer and, hopefully, he will be

protect tore of intellectual property. little by litt, we will get the. >> on television, looking at the sanfd anson theme song, could watch theolor purple ich you co-produced o openp a magazine which you help und. >> you put oprah and will smith on the map for that? >> fresh prince s our show, our oducon, co-production on the color purple. >> whas the key for you having such a wide ach and such longevity? >> i don't know, man. if god gives it to youi am not going to send it can ba.19 the gu did ey lted me up and put me on

the show with sidney poitier. great director. automatically, that hand was out there. mandela says, quincy, co over, i wod like you to co-host with me up in botswana in sth africa and we promised to buil 100 homes for habitat from humanity. i brought five gg bangers with me frol.a. in ten days, we turnedround. they s the essence of south africa we were going through and all this stuff with mandela. all these kids are executives at biorgazations anhelp kids stay o of jail. >> what's thnext thing? what's the next big thing for quincy jones? >> we are going to kanye w and the film festival wi us. >> kanye west? >> we e helpinhundreds of families. >> mbe a month or two ago, there was a little micontrovey about you and

conway? >> the inlt net always has somethg going. they are people that don't have a life, man. they are sitting down there with their pants on the ground and making up stuff and hiding behind an a.k.a. we don't havany beef. they make up stuff. >> what do you think about kanye as an artist and a producer? >> i know all the rappers. i work wh all of them. >> y still have a lot of world. >> i travel at least 200,000 miles a year, brazil. everywhere. [ applause ] >> when are you going to rest? >> you have been doing ifor 62 years? >> rest when you are dead, man. then, you will get a lot of rest. >> i love it, man. i'm a road rat. i have been a musian since i was . i've been in nightclubs an stuff like that. if you don't go away, you don't have to make a comeback.

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