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Jones talks about it all, from his 22 (!)
He talks about buying drugs from Malcolm X and seeing Ray Charles shoot heroin into his testicles.
Its a lengthy conversation worth every minute of your time, but here are the best moments.
Conveniently, however, Charles would suddenly need all the help in the world when a woman was present.
Jones also added that another one of his friends pulls this move, too: Stevie Wonder.
Here is Quincy Jones talking about his 22 girlfriends
Quincy Jones is 84 and has 22 girlfriends.
Stockholm shes coming in next week.
Brazil Belo Horizonte, Sao Paulo, and Rio.
Shanghai got a great girl over there from Shanghai, man.
I said, Yall are not young anymore …
So the new numbers are 28 to 42.
They gave them to me.
But then he comes around to explaining why hes not into her: We need more songs, man.
Fucking songs, not hooks.
Whatever crumbles your cookie.
Knowing what youre doing.
You know what I mean?
Since I was a little kid, Ive always heard the people that dont wanna do the work.
It takes work, man.
The only place you find success before work is the dictionary, and thats alphabetical.
So if you were producing a record for Taylor Swift, what would you have her do?
Ill figure something out.
Man, the song is the shitthats what people dont realize.
A great song can make the worst singer in the world a star.
A bad song cant be saved by the three best singers in the world.
I learned that 50 years ago.
Plenty of people talk as though Taylor Swift has great songs.
But they dont know, man.
Ive come and gone through seven decades of this shit.
Seen how that works.
Ignorance is no thing.
I aint gonna lie.
And the chimpanzee, whatever the fuck it was, he was a pain in the ass.
He continues:
If that was my daughter, Id be kind of angry.
Yeah, I was angry.
What did you say?
Well, what do you say?
After its already happened, what the fuck can you do?
His mouth is inside, but he just ate the parrot so he couldnt get out of the cage.
So hes just hanging there till he digests it.
This is Michaels parrot hes eaten?
The snake didnt want to hear that shit.
Let that sink in.The snake didnt want to hear that shit.
Here is Quincy Jones calling Jeff Bezos Jeffrey
Elon Musk was my neighbor for ten years.
Great guy, man.
Hes a fearless motherfucker.
Every week wed have two or three dinners with Zuckerberg and Sergey Brin and all those cats.
Jeffrey Bezos, Jones makes a kind of exhalation noise.
Bezos the richest motherfucker in the world now.
Everyone was doing drugs, and they had a go-to dealer in Detroit.
Thats where we bought our dope.
It was before he went to prison.
He went on:
So you would personally buy drugs off Malcolm X?
Shit, everybody in the band bought it!
The junkies used to call cocaine girl and heroin boy.
Thats because they said cocaine would take you from your woman.
He also said he stopped drinking last year.
This really made sense to him.
Thats the primate in us, the four Fs: Fright, Fight, Flight, and Fuck.
I never understood why sex and violence were so commercial its the primate brain, the animal brain.
[The meeting] started off funny.
Michael said, I never been to Minnenapolis.
[Prince] said snapping angrily ItsMinneapolis!
Oh God … man, this is not going too well.
Then Janet went by.
[Prince] said, Relax your lips, girl.
And it was not going well, thats for sure.
Here is Quincy Jones talking about Oprah
Jones and Oprah are friends, so this isnt shade.
When discussing his talent for cooking, Jones says Oprah had his Thrillerribs on the show four times.
Why are they called theThrillerribs,GQasks?
Joness grandmother was an ex-slave and had three biracial children, likely fathered by her white owner.
Its heavy, he said.
My people were from Mississippi.
Oprah and I kid all the time we call each other two motherless motherfuckers from Missippi.
Here is Quincy Jones talking about himself
I always get in trouble, you know.
My daughter Kidada calls me LL QJ Loose Lips.
