November 20, 2024 • 31 mins
Q, this is our love letter to you. Quincy Delight Jones spent his time on earth making magic, music, connections, and most of all, a real difference. He was distinguished in nearly every aspect of music and entertainment, including as a bandleader, record producer, musical composer, arranger, trumpeter, record label executive, and movie and television producer. He also happened to work with the true greats from Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, and Count Basie to Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin, and Michael Jackson. Incredibly, one of the things he did with his time on earth was make one of your co pilots Emily his goddaughter. Join us as we pay tribute and honor the passing of a true legend. From live musical interludes and personal stories, to inspirational mantras and tears filled with love, you don’t want to miss this memorial for a man who through his time on earth will truly live forever.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
He always wanted to be everywhere for everybody. It was
also very easy to be there for him. I mean,
there's so many special memories that I have of him.
He always made an effort to send a note on
Valentine's Day or gingerbread cookies on Christmas. He said, and
then quote, Paul was the worst bass player I ever heard.
And Ringo don't even talk about it.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Ego is an over dressed insecurity. If there's another thing
that I think Quincy must be remembered for, it's his
eye for greatness. Oh yeah, he knew how to identify
it inside and outside of music. He saw talent, he
saw potential, Yeah, long before it was even visible to anybody.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
One more thing that he would always say remembered, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Point to his heart. Baby, you're making me.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
I'm not crying if my eyes were sighting. It's on
here the launch.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
And h.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
A new theme zone for today.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Welcome to the world.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
I'm already crying. I don't working.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Don't cry because you're gonna make.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Me no, and I can't. We can't mess up our makeup. Well,
welcome everybody. That was a little different introduction for you.
Today we are going to honor a very very special person,
not only to me personally, but to the world for
so many different reasons, and no time enough in the
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world could sum up how special of a human being
he was and is, because even though he's no longer
with us, and this is our way to humbly honor him,
if you don't know a lot about mister Quincy d
Light Jones, then there's a lot of not only incredible
music that you can luckily go and hear that he
spent his entire life just like, babe, you're making me cry.
(03:01):
I'm not crying, it's my eyes are sweating. It's on here.
But anyways, not only so much incredible music that he
left behind for us to continue to just enjoy and
be able to listen until we are no longer here,
but also just like great video of him. And if
you haven't seen Quincy the documentary, we rewatched it again
the other day because it's just good. Yeah, it doesn't
(03:23):
it doesn't get old. So today we are paying tribute
and honoring the amazing Quincy Jones, who's also I'm blessed
enough to say that that he's my godfather, and also
blessed enough to say that I was a Jem was
able to not only meet him, but be hit on
him a few.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Times by him a few times.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
But anyway, again, for those of you that don't know,
shame on you, But I hope this inspires you to
learn a lot about him. Anyway, He's a legendary music producer, composer,
a ranger. His career has spanned more than seven decades.
He's left an indelible mark on every creative aspect that
he's touched, and he's done a lot. Been producing movies
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like The Color Purple, which is continuing to be remade,
and just one of the most timeless things. Everything he
touched was incredible, thriller with Michael Jackson, unbelievable, most.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Sold album of all time, best selling album of all time.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
To this day, orchestrated Finding to the Moon Frank Sinatra,
and always wore pinky ring that Frank gave him. The
relationships that he had with his people, even into his
late eighties and early nineties, he was always talking about
how much he loved people are the people that he
worked with, how much they were his babies and his
best friends, and yeah, talked about them with so much love.
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Oprah Winfrey had a big hands in her career. He
also works in not only music, but has spent a
lot of his time in his older age contributing to
things like museums that are educating African American youth on
their culture and their past, and raising a lot of
funds for not only museums and things like that, but
(04:55):
these actual causes in addition to doing songs like we
Are the World who if you have to.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Raise money for famine?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
And more so than that, he you would think that
somebody that worked with so many incredible people his ego
might have gotten in the way, but so absolutely discovered
and advocated so for so much young talent, people like
Jacob Collier who are out there nominated now for Album
of the Year. And imagine who would have thought somebody
playing that kind of music, playing jazz. But he was
(05:23):
always advocating just for really talented people Chlode and Hallie
and just continuing to constant collaborator, constant collaboration life. Yes,
and some of his longest collaborators include Ray Charles, Herbie Hancock,
I mean the greats, Count Basie. He played trumpet before
he even started arranging and doing that. He grew up
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poor and obviously he was born in thirty three, so
you can imagine very different times completely. Yeah, he one time,
like in a hall back there, he ran into a piano.
He had an encounter with a piano and all you
have to do was like play a couple notes, look
out something stuff on the piano, and he was hooked.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
That was it.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
He was like, this is what I want to do,
and he did it his entire life with class and
with a lot of swag. So anyway, a little bit
about Quincy and how incredible he was, But more than anything,
I think having a window into the human being that
he was was special. What was your first impression when
you met him?
Speaker 3 (06:21):
I don't think that this happened.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
That's happened to me a lot in my life with you,
because for one, looking back, I don't think I could
have ever predicted that I would meet you and would
have had this life like somewhat in the public eye.
So I didn't have time to mentally prepare for what
it might be like to find myself in the room,
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in a room with some of the greatest people on
earth that were still alive, that are still toll alive today,
most accomplished, most impressive change makers of our world. I
didn't know, and I also knew very little the jazz
world still, so I didn't know who Quincy was. I
could tell that he was somebody that was revered and
(07:08):
highly respected. Everybody was celebrating him the moment that he
came in. But to me, he was your godfather. You know,
I was meeting your godfather, and he was this cool, sly,
smooth cat who spoke to you for two minutes and
then put his arm around me. And when I started
to realize who he was, because of course after that,
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I started to do research and you filled me in
quickly on some of the time he did this, and
you know, he's responsible for this. Have you heard of Thriller?
I then started to kind of put two and two
together and like match character to context. Yeah, and I
was like, wow, this is somebody who, in his own
way is responsible for a lot of the music of today.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Yeah, absolutely directly responsible. And he is so cool, so humble, yeah,
so personable, funny.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
But he always had a joke. I always had a
little dirty joke.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I think that he's like the quintessential like cool jazz cat,
you know, like till the end of his life.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Of his life till the last day, he.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Was the coolest person in the room, and not because
of his accomplishments, just because of his presence, his vibe.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Yeah. What I think is something that was really unbelievable
about Quincy is that, especially when he got a little
bit older, he did a lot of reflecting. He was spiritual,
very spiritual, and very aware of the places in his
life where maybe he made sacrifices to create not only
the work that he did, but in the way that
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he did so, I mean, it wasn't all sunshine and
rainbows and him reflecting on the fact that I was
essentially married to my work and I was obsessed, and
he was married a couple of times. He has beautiful children,
and it was such an incredible father to the last
day literally just actually a couple days before he passed, unfortunately,
was was one of his daughter's birthdays. The way that
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he talks about raising his children, and even the respect
that he has for his children's mothers, even though the
relationships didn't work out. All gorgeous women, by the.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Way, he has great taste.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
No, but even a couple of years ago was saying,
you know, posted a picture of his first wife and
the first mother of his child, and was like, I
had such deep love and respect for her and like,
you know, we have this beautiful baby. And the way
that he was able to reflect on that, like, oh,
I spent way too much time on my music. At
one point he had a brain aneurysm. They thought that
he was that he was going to pass away, Like
really was. It was looking really really bleak and really bad,
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and it.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Was like his new lease on life.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I mean, it's not uncommon that musicians like to drink.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Oh yeah, and he's diabetic. It's a hard lifestyle and
especially him, like he was surrounded by so so so
many people who loved him so much, but constantly changing
environment and just working all the time. And one of
his exes always said, like he always wanted to be
everywhere for everybody. It was also very easy to be
there for him. I mean, one of the most special memories.
(10:06):
There's so many special memories that I have of him.
He always made an effort. He brought this up because
you've seen it to send a note on Valentine's Day
or gingerbread cookies, yeah, on Christmas, A book about jazz
sometimes even like the box that he would send stuff
in would have like outer space stickers on it, or
like cool things that he thought that maybe I would like.
And those little things stick out a lot. And I
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think that that ended up in his music and in
his art, which is why he's so special. There's an
amazing video of him talking and he says, your music
is only as human as you, as human as you are, right,
And he interpreted that as like, Okay, well, it doesn't
matter how much I sit here and work on my
music and study and this and that. If I don't
work on the self, if I don't work on the
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human being, that's where my music's gonna stop. And I
think that's very powerful, not only in music, but in
anything you do in life.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
The learning never ends.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Yeah, but also the importance of like working on yourself.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
There's a lot that Quincy imparted to the world. But
you had the unique opportunity of knowing him essentially since
the day.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Of your birth.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Yeah, and so you must have spent so many moments
throughout your life. I'm sure different periods and different times
and different moments. I remember one of the photos that
we were going through recently, you know, when we got
the news. Was one where you told me that you
had told him you were going to Berkeley. If you could
tell me two of your most memorable moments with Quincy,
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and I say too, just in case you wanted to
use that one as one of it.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
I think every moment with him was impactful. I think
that I noticed that he treated every interaction with everybody
like that as well. It doesn't matter how close you're,
not close you he were. He really valued that and
impacted a lot of people. You know, like getting a
picture with Quincy, are getting a sentence in with Quincy
is Yeah, it's a big deal. It's a big deal.
(12:08):
One of the things that it's not even about him
saying anything, it's just again, like about him as a person.
I had my first showcase in La and the Small
Little Joint, and he was older and not necessarily feeling
like the best, but came with his little cooler of
his personal little snacks and items that he could have
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and stayed the entire show and I wanted host from him.
I wanted to hear all the bad stuff.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
You wanted a real reaction review, And all he could
do is laugh, and he's like, it's so funny, like,
I'm glad that you got the real music bug, you
know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (12:47):
I think to him, like, because you know, he did
a lot of pop and he actually did a lot
of work for hip hop. He was like, oh, hip
hop and bebop jazz, which is what he wanted to
play it, which at the time that he was playing
bebop it was like the rebellious music, which now you
play bebop for like kids and they're like, what the
hell is this shit? But he saw similarities in hip
hop and bebop and anyway, So for him to say like, oh,
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you got the real music bug and crack up, Like
to him, that's like she has the same infection that
we do, like us musicians that not necessarily everybody has
in the industry, and having the privilege that I could
very easily take an easier route or maybe not necessarily
practice my instrument or something like.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
That, become serious about mastering your craft, right. But so
him coming and him just kind of like that meant
a lot to me. And that other time when when
I saw him right before we went to Berkeley, he
told me, which I think is really interesting, and I
think I need to go back to this now, but
because I did end up getting around to taking a
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few classes this and spending some of my time at
Berkeley doing this.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
And he actually went to Berkeley before it was called Berkeley,
I know, it was an all boys school.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
He told me to never forget and I'll always remember
as money strings of an orchestra as possible, like remember
their tunings, remember their range, how to write for strings,
which I thought was really interesting and reflected in his works.
So we'll also no such a deal for him his career, Yeah,
(14:15):
including at the beginning of the Michael song don't stop
so you get enough? Oh that's not it.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
But and he was he was doing he was arranging
for strings back when there were no black arrangers for
strings exactly. He was one of the first.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Getting paid like twelve bucks per arrangement.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
When you know, they were playing gigs in Vegas and
musicians were playing the main stage but had to leave
out the back door. Yeah, because he would say that,
I mean, his grandma was a slave, was a former
I know.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
And there were certain times when him and like certain
black musicians were on the bus and like they would
have to get somebody else or the bus drivers whoever
that was white around to essentially like get the food
and be be able to go in and get the
food because they just weren't allowed, you know what I mean.
Another thing he talked about a lot was anger and
how anger never served him and how he realized that like, yeah,
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he needed to like get the anger out of his body,
that that was only hurting him and he had so
many things in life that he could have been angry about,
but he just kind of took it in stride and
like learned learn from it.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
And so speaking of I want to tell a funny
little anecdote about Quincy. So he thought that he he
and he said this openly and by the way, he
really was. He was a really funny guy.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
So he really was.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
And he would always be polit about like, oh, oh honey,
I don't I don't want to say this bad joke,
like you know, feel bad about him. Then say the joke.
I'd be like, oh god, what did I just do.
I'm like, oh, I got c It was great. He
really just so gutting you ASO is such a warm,
loving guy. Yeah, but this is this is a really
funny story about him. So he believed that the Beatles,
he's like. He went on record saying that the Beatles
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were the worst musicians in the world. He called them
no playing mother efforts, he said, and then quote Paul
was the worst bass player I ever heard, and Ringo
don't even talk about it. I remember once we were
in the studio with George Martin and Ringo had taken
three hours for a four bar thing. He was trying
to fix on a song horrible. He couldn't get it.
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We said, mate, why don't you go get some lagger
and lime and Shepherd's pie and take an hour and
a half and relax a little bit. So he did,
and we called Ronnie verrel a jazz drummer. Ronnie came
in for fifteen minutes and tore it up. Ringo came
back and said, George, can you play it for me
one more time? No, so George did, and Ringo said
that didn't sound so bad, and I said, yeah, mother effort,
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because it ain't you great guy though anyway, Yeah, I
think that that's great because he probably really felt that way.
A great guy though to his point, I mean, he
loved certain Beatles tunes and things like that. But I
think it's amazing that at the end of the day
he's just so old school, but continue to evolve too.
That's an inspiration for me as well. Everybody should should
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learn to be like that, you know, very open minded
and a lot of cool.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Cool, he said, a lot of really cool things.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
I actually have a couple. Oh yeah, have a couple quotes.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Yeah, let's do it, some.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Quincy quotes, some favorites. Okay, oh yeah, I love that. Yeah,
give it to me, Give it to me. The first
thing is to be humble with your creativity and grateful
with your success Quincy Delight Jones. Oh he was Dlight Jones.
The second too, By the way, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Oh yeah, it's dad.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
You can't live without water or music between Rach what
a legend between Ray, Charles and Sinatra, I learned how
to live. Ego is an over dressed insecurity. Not one
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ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
I wish every day.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
My daddy told me the same thing. He would tell
me this one all the time. Once the task has
just begun, never leave until it's done.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Be the labor great or.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Small, do it well or not at all. And this one,
which is so relevant for all of us. God gave
us two ears and one mouth, because you're supposed to
listen twice.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
As much as you speak.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
That's a fucking.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Quincy Jones.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Man, that's dope.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
That's beautiful, baby.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Little underscore underscore. Also fun fact about Quincy he never
learned how to drive. I thought that was interesting.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
No, yeah, I mean fuck it, yeah, right right. I
got a certain point if you haven't learned yet, why
I learned?
Speaker 1 (18:57):
You know what I love about Quincy and his quotes too,
that he really would just be sitting around and like
be whipping out these quotes like he he lived by
these things. It's not just one of those things. Yeah,
he really did. He lives by it. And and any
chance you got to get one of those in person
was lucky. And one more thing that he would always say,
remember took he meant it too, Yeah, point to his heart.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
But among all.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Those amazing words and also like musical accolades, some of
which that we that we touched on. He also was
the first African American male to be the head of
a record label, Mercury Records. I believe it was, yeah,
in nineteen sixty four. And that's amazing. He wasn't afraid.
He grabbed life by the horns and really is a
(19:47):
definition of a trail blazer, No, for sure. Also always
advocating for US latinos man. Yeah, such a like unity.
His message was really unity and everything he did. Also
a fun fact about him, he was like technically adopted
by Count Basie.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
When he was young, Like you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Yeah, Like there's this clip of him walking around the
African American Museum and he's like looking at like all
these icons of history and art and so much more.
I saw that scene, Yeah, and he's like, Man, my buddies,
My buddies, you know what I mean. Like, imagine imagine
the stories that that he must have that unfortunately he
took with him that a lot of people may not know.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
I'm sure he shared some.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
I'm sure he did. I'm sure he was.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
He was pretty open.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Yeah, for those.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Of you that did not know, he was the executive
producer on Fresh Prince of bel Air.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Yeah, he's pretty much discovered Will Smith, Yeah, and encouraged
him to enter the acting world. Yeah, I mean he
just if there's another thing that I say Quincy must
be remembered for, it's his eye for greatness. Oh yeah,
he knew how to identify it inside and outside of music.
(21:08):
He saw talent, he saw potential, yeah, long before it
was even visible to anybody.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
And get excited about it. And that I feel like
also is like evident in all his art. Like when
we touched on the Michael thing and the strings and
all the stuff he did. I didn't get to say,
but he actually Michael had left a note on his
desk that was like, please take the strings out. It's
like ruining mine.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Oh, for the beginning of those.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Stops again enough Yeah, and Quincy's like not doing that.
He's like, that's the best part. And so they were like, oh,
well what happened. He's like, what are you here on
the record? And those little tiny things sometimes make a difference. Yeah,
the one different word, the one melody and now it's iconic. Yeah.
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And and the way that he would know how to
work with artists, keep them at ease, you know, speak
to them the right way. You can see that very well.
And we are the world documentary which I recommend you
go look as well. It's a masterclass and how to
deal with a lot of personalities and big arrangements. Him
writing in pen on his scores.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Oh my god, people, that is wild to me.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
People don't even write scores like.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Manuscript let alone.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Yeah, and actually, I think he really would have loved
our podcast, And it's I'm sad that we never got
to have a conversation with him on it.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
We thought we would soon, you know, but time.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Don't wait. Talk to the people, your mentors, the people
that go visit them, learn from them. You never know
when they're not going to be here. And Luckily, like
I said, with somebody like Quincy, we have so much
that we can all collectively learn about him and honor
him by listening to and consuming because he's one of
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the people that I'm I will always say, I'm so
proud to consume his art and everything she does. It's
something that's easy and a joy to do for so
many reasons.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
And then when you add the human element to it
even more, Yeah, it's like I'm happy to I'm happy
to do this. It was interesting recently I was watching
a video of I don't know his name, but the
drummer who played on Rock with You. He was on
Elmo from jam Cards podcast. Yeah, and he was talking
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about that day that they were in the studio and
Quincy comes up to him and he was like, all right,
I'm gonna need you to come up with a fil
that the whole world will recognize this song by.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
He did it. That's it, one take and that was it.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Amazing genius.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
The guy's like, oh, okay, yeah, Quincy, Quincy, yeah, Quincy.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
But then he did it.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Yeah. I look at him, like, still doing podcasts, and
I think he would have liked our podcast.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
He actually, no, that wasn't Quincy.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
No, I know the drummer was on the podcast.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Yeah, what I'm saying, I think that Quincy. I think
that Quincy actually would have liked our podcast because you know,
he has an album with a lot of some really
cool instrumental stuff too, called Walking in Space.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Well, hello, you know that fly Me to the Moon
was played in space on the Apollo ten as it
orbited the moon and Apollo eleven.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Yeah, and on a couple other moments, and including Neil
Armstrong's funeral and the celebration of Apollo Yeah, isn't that.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Isn't that interesting?
Speaker 1 (24:21):
He had his own little space moment we miss you
cue the world misses you, but we know that wherever
you are making some amazing music right with the grades
up there.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
He was well received on his arrival to the Pearlygates.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
So selfishly, we miss you here so much.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Well, I want to leave you with one thing.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
I actually shared this the day that we got the
news of Quincy's passing, but I want to read it
again for you because I feel like it's really important
that you remember this. And this is a post that
Quincy put on his Facebook.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
I'm gonna cry.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Oh no, please don't cry.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
H February one, twenty seventeen. And I just I think
that he was spot on, and I want you to
carry those words with you. Always don't cry, says I.
Wish I could say it is in his voice, sonic.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
I'm not even gonna try.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
My sweet goddaughter, Emily is Stefan used to be so
afraid to sing that she wouldn't even sing.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
To herself, which is true, you guys don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
But I'm glad that she got over that because she's
blessed us with a voice that we needed. She also
taught herself drums, guitar, and keyboard by ear, and recently
graduated from my alma mater, Berkeley known as Shillinger House
when I was there, so I am proud, But I
mean with Gloria and Emilia was Stephan his parents, there's
no wonder where she got the talent. She started playing
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drums for her mom's concerts at age ten, and at
fifteen she played guitar on the Spanish version of We
Are the World twenty fifteen with her mom and pop.
I can't wait for you to blow everyone away at
your first headlining concert at Festival Miami tomorrow, Emily love
you girl with a link to.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
The tickets, so cute and plugging me.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
I love him and my favorite part is she's blessed
us with a voice.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
That we needed.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
No thank you for sharing that.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
So if Quincy saw something in you know that that
thing exists and you gotta listen.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Well, the story is apparently that he found out that
I was being born a whatnot. He goes, I'm gonna
be that baby's godfather.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Yeah, why, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Wow, he knew even before you were on the planet.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
He identified.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
It's actually a video where he was I was like
a couple of days old, A couple of times. I
just gave brother and I'm.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Like, ah, she puts her arm up for everyone to see.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
But no, I really do feel blessed and the world
is lucky to have him. And a chapter closes, but
I put a post online as well, and it really
explains how I feel about him, which is that like
he's gone, but he planted a lot of seeds and
a lot of people, and he left behind like a
really really beautiful garden, so it'll be alive many years
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and lots of music written and lots of forever. He's
lots of beautiful things still happening thanks to him, even
though he's not here. So thank you, Quincy, thank you,
and seriously, you won't regret it. Go learn it's just
a piece of history. He's a piece of history, not
just music, but he's a history period. And before we
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deorbit something that I know that Q would enjoy very much,
and in honor of him, to do you would laugh,
for he would laugh and probably be like Emily, but
oh you're funny. I just report the news. It's all
just the truth. But anyway, in honor of Q, we
have a music edition of Everybody's in a Network Spice news.
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All right, ladies, George jermals, germats, germains. Have you heard
of NASA's soonification project. Uh, well you're about to. You
don't have a choice it twenty twenty, NASA's Chandra x
ray Center has been translating telescope data into notes and
subsequently into sounds by a process called signification. This allows
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people to experience the data through sounds instead of images.
Game detisanting. Funnily enough, Chandra X ray and Charlie XCX
are already booked for Coachella next year. She'll get your ticket, staffs.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
Everybody, Oh cool.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Though I want to hear data rep Nope, all right.
The tradition of waking American astronauts with a song from
Earth has instead of an alarm started during the two
day Gemini six mission in nineteen sixty five with a
version of Hello Dollards. Since then, wake up calls to
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ships and Shuttle cruise have included everything from Beethoven to Bowie,
Space Oddity of Course, and Tarkowsky ten thousand Maniacs. Pretty
much every genre of music, with the exception of thrash
metal and the song Great Balls of Fire by Jerry
Lee Luis. But for obvious reasons, you don't want to
listen to great balls of fire in space, No, but thanks,
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it is what it is. Lastly, in out of Space,
two Golden records as in musical records were sent on
voyager probes, containing music, greetings and natural sounds to explore
the entire galaxy in hopes that at some point it's
going to crash into an alien out there and that
will be what represents our huh yeah, what we essentially
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want the extraterrestrials to see. In the first two gold
Press records there are Bach Mozart, Chuck Berry, Lower Spiegel,
the amazing synth artist Dravinsky, and even sounds of humpback
whales going With all the new attention and fear on
aliens though, and how we think that they might be
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surveilling us and maybe are going to pulverize it any minute,
You've decided to send out a new record containing songs
that might potentially scare aliens and divert them from Earth.
So yes, including and this is actual information, real information,
a ten minute version of WOP Never Gonna Give You
Up by Rick Astley, Baby Shark Remix and the recording
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of Fergie's National anim.
Speaker 6 (30:25):
What I Love gay Proof, Me too, gay proof and
this has been saynoozes, baby.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
What would what would you want the aliens to hear? Honestly? Thriller?
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Thriller?
Speaker 2 (30:41):
I mean it's literally best selling album of all time
with over seventy million copies sold. Thriller amazing. He also
revolutionized music videos. Is that ten minute video? It was like,
he's just an such an icon.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Well you, we love you. Thank you for the time,
your time on this planet. Yeah, selfishly, we could have
used more, but you had an incredible run. And like
I said, we will take care of the garden. And
for those of you out there, learn about him, be
somebody worth your time, and if not, I'm gonna find you. No.
All right, everybody, Well follow us on our socials at
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in our Own World Pod and we'll join you next
week for another flight on in our Own World Airlines.
We love you, Bye bye.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
I think I might want you to musical outro every
episode I.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
Love You.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
Launch.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
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He always wanted to be everywhere for everybody. It was
also very easy to be there for him. I mean,
there's so many special memories that I have of him.
He always made an effort to send a note on
Valentine's Day or gingerbread cookies on Christmas. He said, and
then quote, Paul was the worst bass player I ever heard.
And Ringo don't even talk about it.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Ego is an over dressed insecurity. If there's another thing
that I think Quincy must be remembered for, it's his
eye for greatness. Oh yeah, he knew how to identify
it inside and outside of music. He saw talent, he
saw potential, Yeah, long before it was even visible to anybody.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
One more thing that he would always say remembered, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Point to his heart. Baby, you're making me.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
I'm not crying if my eyes were sighting. It's on
here the launch.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
And h.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
A new theme zone for today.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Welcome to the world.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
I'm already crying. I don't working.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Don't cry because you're gonna make.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Me no, and I can't. We can't mess up our makeup. Well,
welcome everybody. That was a little different introduction for you.
Today we are going to honor a very very special person,
not only to me personally, but to the world for
so many different reasons, and no time enough in the
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world could sum up how special of a human being
he was and is, because even though he's no longer
with us, and this is our way to humbly honor him,
if you don't know a lot about mister Quincy d
Light Jones, then there's a lot of not only incredible
music that you can luckily go and hear that he
spent his entire life just like, babe, you're making me cry.
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I'm not crying, it's my eyes are sweating. It's on here.
But anyways, not only so much incredible music that he
left behind for us to continue to just enjoy and
be able to listen until we are no longer here,
but also just like great video of him. And if
you haven't seen Quincy the documentary, we rewatched it again
the other day because it's just good. Yeah, it doesn't
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it doesn't get old. So today we are paying tribute
and honoring the amazing Quincy Jones, who's also I'm blessed
enough to say that that he's my godfather, and also
blessed enough to say that I was a Jem was
able to not only meet him, but be hit on
him a few.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Times by him a few times.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
But anyway, again, for those of you that don't know,
shame on you, But I hope this inspires you to
learn a lot about him. Anyway, He's a legendary music producer, composer,
a ranger. His career has spanned more than seven decades.
He's left an indelible mark on every creative aspect that
he's touched, and he's done a lot. Been producing movies
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like The Color Purple, which is continuing to be remade,
and just one of the most timeless things. Everything he
touched was incredible, thriller with Michael Jackson, unbelievable, most.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Sold album of all time, best selling album of all time.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
To this day, orchestrated Finding to the Moon Frank Sinatra,
and always wore pinky ring that Frank gave him. The
relationships that he had with his people, even into his
late eighties and early nineties, he was always talking about
how much he loved people are the people that he
worked with, how much they were his babies and his
best friends, and yeah, talked about them with so much love.
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Oprah Winfrey had a big hands in her career. He
also works in not only music, but has spent a
lot of his time in his older age contributing to
things like museums that are educating African American youth on
their culture and their past, and raising a lot of
funds for not only museums and things like that, but
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these actual causes in addition to doing songs like we
Are the World who if you have to.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Raise money for famine?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
And more so than that, he you would think that
somebody that worked with so many incredible people his ego
might have gotten in the way, but so absolutely discovered
and advocated so for so much young talent, people like
Jacob Collier who are out there nominated now for Album
of the Year. And imagine who would have thought somebody
playing that kind of music, playing jazz. But he was
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always advocating just for really talented people Chlode and Hallie
and just continuing to constant collaborator, constant collaboration life. Yes,
and some of his longest collaborators include Ray Charles, Herbie Hancock,
I mean the greats, Count Basie. He played trumpet before
he even started arranging and doing that. He grew up
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poor and obviously he was born in thirty three, so
you can imagine very different times completely. Yeah, he one time,
like in a hall back there, he ran into a piano.
He had an encounter with a piano and all you
have to do was like play a couple notes, look
out something stuff on the piano, and he was hooked.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
That was it.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
He was like, this is what I want to do,
and he did it his entire life with class and
with a lot of swag. So anyway, a little bit
about Quincy and how incredible he was, But more than anything,
I think having a window into the human being that
he was was special. What was your first impression when
you met him?
Speaker 3 (06:21):
I don't think that this happened.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
That's happened to me a lot in my life with you,
because for one, looking back, I don't think I could
have ever predicted that I would meet you and would
have had this life like somewhat in the public eye.
So I didn't have time to mentally prepare for what
it might be like to find myself in the room,
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in a room with some of the greatest people on
earth that were still alive, that are still toll alive today,
most accomplished, most impressive change makers of our world. I
didn't know, and I also knew very little the jazz
world still, so I didn't know who Quincy was. I
could tell that he was somebody that was revered and
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highly respected. Everybody was celebrating him the moment that he
came in. But to me, he was your godfather. You know,
I was meeting your godfather, and he was this cool, sly,
smooth cat who spoke to you for two minutes and
then put his arm around me. And when I started
to realize who he was, because of course after that,
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I started to do research and you filled me in
quickly on some of the time he did this, and
you know, he's responsible for this. Have you heard of Thriller?
I then started to kind of put two and two
together and like match character to context. Yeah, and I
was like, wow, this is somebody who, in his own
way is responsible for a lot of the music of today.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Yeah, absolutely directly responsible. And he is so cool, so humble, yeah,
so personable, funny.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
But he always had a joke. I always had a
little dirty joke.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I think that he's like the quintessential like cool jazz cat,
you know, like till the end of his life.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Of his life till the last day, he.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Was the coolest person in the room, and not because
of his accomplishments, just because of his presence, his vibe.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Yeah. What I think is something that was really unbelievable
about Quincy is that, especially when he got a little
bit older, he did a lot of reflecting. He was spiritual,
very spiritual, and very aware of the places in his
life where maybe he made sacrifices to create not only
the work that he did, but in the way that
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he did so, I mean, it wasn't all sunshine and
rainbows and him reflecting on the fact that I was
essentially married to my work and I was obsessed, and
he was married a couple of times. He has beautiful children,
and it was such an incredible father to the last
day literally just actually a couple days before he passed, unfortunately,
was was one of his daughter's birthdays. The way that
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he talks about raising his children, and even the respect
that he has for his children's mothers, even though the
relationships didn't work out. All gorgeous women, by the.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Way, he has great taste.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
No, but even a couple of years ago was saying,
you know, posted a picture of his first wife and
the first mother of his child, and was like, I
had such deep love and respect for her and like,
you know, we have this beautiful baby. And the way
that he was able to reflect on that, like, oh,
I spent way too much time on my music. At
one point he had a brain aneurysm. They thought that
he was that he was going to pass away, Like
really was. It was looking really really bleak and really bad,
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and it.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Was like his new lease on life.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I mean, it's not uncommon that musicians like to drink.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Oh yeah, and he's diabetic. It's a hard lifestyle and
especially him, like he was surrounded by so so so
many people who loved him so much, but constantly changing
environment and just working all the time. And one of
his exes always said, like he always wanted to be
everywhere for everybody. It was also very easy to be
there for him. I mean, one of the most special memories.
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There's so many special memories that I have of him.
He always made an effort. He brought this up because
you've seen it to send a note on Valentine's Day
or gingerbread cookies, yeah, on Christmas, A book about jazz
sometimes even like the box that he would send stuff
in would have like outer space stickers on it, or
like cool things that he thought that maybe I would like.
And those little things stick out a lot. And I
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think that that ended up in his music and in
his art, which is why he's so special. There's an
amazing video of him talking and he says, your music
is only as human as you, as human as you are, right,
And he interpreted that as like, Okay, well, it doesn't
matter how much I sit here and work on my
music and study and this and that. If I don't
work on the self, if I don't work on the
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human being, that's where my music's gonna stop. And I
think that's very powerful, not only in music, but in
anything you do in life.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
The learning never ends.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Yeah, but also the importance of like working on yourself.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
There's a lot that Quincy imparted to the world. But
you had the unique opportunity of knowing him essentially since
the day.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Of your birth.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Yeah, and so you must have spent so many moments
throughout your life. I'm sure different periods and different times
and different moments. I remember one of the photos that
we were going through recently, you know, when we got
the news. Was one where you told me that you
had told him you were going to Berkeley. If you could
tell me two of your most memorable moments with Quincy,
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and I say too, just in case you wanted to
use that one as one of it.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
I think every moment with him was impactful. I think
that I noticed that he treated every interaction with everybody
like that as well. It doesn't matter how close you're,
not close you he were. He really valued that and
impacted a lot of people. You know, like getting a
picture with Quincy, are getting a sentence in with Quincy
is Yeah, it's a big deal. It's a big deal.
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One of the things that it's not even about him
saying anything, it's just again, like about him as a person.
I had my first showcase in La and the Small
Little Joint, and he was older and not necessarily feeling
like the best, but came with his little cooler of
his personal little snacks and items that he could have
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and stayed the entire show and I wanted host from him.
I wanted to hear all the bad stuff.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
You wanted a real reaction review, And all he could
do is laugh, and he's like, it's so funny, like,
I'm glad that you got the real music bug, you
know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (12:47):
I think to him, like, because you know, he did
a lot of pop and he actually did a lot
of work for hip hop. He was like, oh, hip
hop and bebop jazz, which is what he wanted to
play it, which at the time that he was playing
bebop it was like the rebellious music, which now you
play bebop for like kids and they're like, what the
hell is this shit? But he saw similarities in hip
hop and bebop and anyway, So for him to say like, oh,
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you got the real music bug and crack up, Like
to him, that's like she has the same infection that
we do, like us musicians that not necessarily everybody has
in the industry, and having the privilege that I could
very easily take an easier route or maybe not necessarily
practice my instrument or something like.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
That, become serious about mastering your craft, right. But so
him coming and him just kind of like that meant
a lot to me. And that other time when when
I saw him right before we went to Berkeley, he
told me, which I think is really interesting, and I
think I need to go back to this now, but
because I did end up getting around to taking a
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few classes this and spending some of my time at
Berkeley doing this.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
And he actually went to Berkeley before it was called Berkeley,
I know, it was an all boys school.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
He told me to never forget and I'll always remember
as money strings of an orchestra as possible, like remember
their tunings, remember their range, how to write for strings,
which I thought was really interesting and reflected in his works.
So we'll also no such a deal for him his career, Yeah,
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including at the beginning of the Michael song don't stop
so you get enough? Oh that's not it.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
But and he was he was doing he was arranging
for strings back when there were no black arrangers for
strings exactly. He was one of the first.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Getting paid like twelve bucks per arrangement.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
When you know, they were playing gigs in Vegas and
musicians were playing the main stage but had to leave
out the back door. Yeah, because he would say that,
I mean, his grandma was a slave, was a former
I know.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
And there were certain times when him and like certain
black musicians were on the bus and like they would
have to get somebody else or the bus drivers whoever
that was white around to essentially like get the food
and be be able to go in and get the
food because they just weren't allowed, you know what I mean.
Another thing he talked about a lot was anger and
how anger never served him and how he realized that like, yeah,
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he needed to like get the anger out of his body,
that that was only hurting him and he had so
many things in life that he could have been angry about,
but he just kind of took it in stride and
like learned learn from it.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
And so speaking of I want to tell a funny
little anecdote about Quincy. So he thought that he he
and he said this openly and by the way, he
really was. He was a really funny guy.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
So he really was.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
And he would always be polit about like, oh, oh honey,
I don't I don't want to say this bad joke,
like you know, feel bad about him. Then say the joke.
I'd be like, oh god, what did I just do.
I'm like, oh, I got c It was great. He
really just so gutting you ASO is such a warm,
loving guy. Yeah, but this is this is a really
funny story about him. So he believed that the Beatles,
he's like. He went on record saying that the Beatles
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were the worst musicians in the world. He called them
no playing mother efforts, he said, and then quote Paul
was the worst bass player I ever heard, and Ringo
don't even talk about it. I remember once we were
in the studio with George Martin and Ringo had taken
three hours for a four bar thing. He was trying
to fix on a song horrible. He couldn't get it.
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We said, mate, why don't you go get some lagger
and lime and Shepherd's pie and take an hour and
a half and relax a little bit. So he did,
and we called Ronnie verrel a jazz drummer. Ronnie came
in for fifteen minutes and tore it up. Ringo came
back and said, George, can you play it for me
one more time? No, so George did, and Ringo said
that didn't sound so bad, and I said, yeah, mother effort,
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because it ain't you great guy though anyway, Yeah, I
think that that's great because he probably really felt that way.
A great guy though to his point, I mean, he
loved certain Beatles tunes and things like that. But I
think it's amazing that at the end of the day
he's just so old school, but continue to evolve too.
That's an inspiration for me as well. Everybody should should
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learn to be like that, you know, very open minded
and a lot of cool.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Cool, he said, a lot of really cool things.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
I actually have a couple. Oh yeah, have a couple quotes.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Yeah, let's do it, some.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Quincy quotes, some favorites. Okay, oh yeah, I love that. Yeah,
give it to me, Give it to me. The first
thing is to be humble with your creativity and grateful
with your success Quincy Delight Jones. Oh he was Dlight Jones.
The second too, By the way, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Oh yeah, it's dad.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
You can't live without water or music between Rach what
a legend between Ray, Charles and Sinatra, I learned how
to live. Ego is an over dressed insecurity. Not one
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ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
I wish every day.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
My daddy told me the same thing. He would tell
me this one all the time. Once the task has
just begun, never leave until it's done.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Be the labor great or.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Small, do it well or not at all. And this one,
which is so relevant for all of us. God gave
us two ears and one mouth, because you're supposed to
listen twice.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
As much as you speak.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
That's a fucking.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Quincy Jones.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Man, that's dope.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
That's beautiful, baby.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Little underscore underscore. Also fun fact about Quincy he never
learned how to drive. I thought that was interesting.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
No, yeah, I mean fuck it, yeah, right right. I
got a certain point if you haven't learned yet, why
I learned?
Speaker 1 (18:57):
You know what I love about Quincy and his quotes too,
that he really would just be sitting around and like
be whipping out these quotes like he he lived by
these things. It's not just one of those things. Yeah,
he really did. He lives by it. And and any
chance you got to get one of those in person
was lucky. And one more thing that he would always say,
remember took he meant it too, Yeah, point to his heart.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
But among all.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Those amazing words and also like musical accolades, some of
which that we that we touched on. He also was
the first African American male to be the head of
a record label, Mercury Records. I believe it was, yeah,
in nineteen sixty four. And that's amazing. He wasn't afraid.
He grabbed life by the horns and really is a
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definition of a trail blazer, No, for sure. Also always
advocating for US latinos man. Yeah, such a like unity.
His message was really unity and everything he did. Also
a fun fact about him, he was like technically adopted
by Count Basie.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
When he was young, Like you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Yeah, Like there's this clip of him walking around the
African American Museum and he's like looking at like all
these icons of history and art and so much more.
I saw that scene, Yeah, and he's like, Man, my buddies,
My buddies, you know what I mean. Like, imagine imagine
the stories that that he must have that unfortunately he
took with him that a lot of people may not know.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
I'm sure he shared some.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
I'm sure he did. I'm sure he was.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
He was pretty open.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Yeah, for those.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Of you that did not know, he was the executive
producer on Fresh Prince of bel Air.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Yeah, he's pretty much discovered Will Smith, Yeah, and encouraged
him to enter the acting world. Yeah, I mean he
just if there's another thing that I say Quincy must
be remembered for, it's his eye for greatness. Oh yeah,
he knew how to identify it inside and outside of music.
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He saw talent, he saw potential, yeah, long before it
was even visible to anybody.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
And get excited about it. And that I feel like
also is like evident in all his art. Like when
we touched on the Michael thing and the strings and
all the stuff he did. I didn't get to say,
but he actually Michael had left a note on his
desk that was like, please take the strings out. It's
like ruining mine.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Oh, for the beginning of those.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Stops again enough Yeah, and Quincy's like not doing that.
He's like, that's the best part. And so they were like, oh,
well what happened. He's like, what are you here on
the record? And those little tiny things sometimes make a difference. Yeah,
the one different word, the one melody and now it's iconic. Yeah.
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And and the way that he would know how to
work with artists, keep them at ease, you know, speak
to them the right way. You can see that very well.
And we are the world documentary which I recommend you
go look as well. It's a masterclass and how to
deal with a lot of personalities and big arrangements. Him
writing in pen on his scores.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Oh my god, people, that is wild to me.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
People don't even write scores like.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Manuscript let alone.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Yeah, and actually, I think he really would have loved
our podcast, And it's I'm sad that we never got
to have a conversation with him on it.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
We thought we would soon, you know, but time.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Don't wait. Talk to the people, your mentors, the people
that go visit them, learn from them. You never know
when they're not going to be here. And Luckily, like
I said, with somebody like Quincy, we have so much
that we can all collectively learn about him and honor
him by listening to and consuming because he's one of
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the people that I'm I will always say, I'm so
proud to consume his art and everything she does. It's
something that's easy and a joy to do for so
many reasons.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
And then when you add the human element to it
even more, Yeah, it's like I'm happy to I'm happy
to do this. It was interesting recently I was watching
a video of I don't know his name, but the
drummer who played on Rock with You. He was on
Elmo from jam Cards podcast. Yeah, and he was talking
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about that day that they were in the studio and
Quincy comes up to him and he was like, all right,
I'm gonna need you to come up with a fil
that the whole world will recognize this song by.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
He did it. That's it, one take and that was it.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Amazing genius.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
The guy's like, oh, okay, yeah, Quincy, Quincy, yeah, Quincy.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
But then he did it.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Yeah. I look at him, like, still doing podcasts, and
I think he would have liked our podcast.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
He actually, no, that wasn't Quincy.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
No, I know the drummer was on the podcast.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Yeah, what I'm saying, I think that Quincy. I think
that Quincy actually would have liked our podcast because you know,
he has an album with a lot of some really
cool instrumental stuff too, called Walking in Space.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Well, hello, you know that fly Me to the Moon
was played in space on the Apollo ten as it
orbited the moon and Apollo eleven.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Yeah, and on a couple other moments, and including Neil
Armstrong's funeral and the celebration of Apollo Yeah, isn't that.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Isn't that interesting?
Speaker 1 (24:21):
He had his own little space moment we miss you
cue the world misses you, but we know that wherever
you are making some amazing music right with the grades
up there.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
He was well received on his arrival to the Pearlygates.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
So selfishly, we miss you here so much.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Well, I want to leave you with one thing.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
I actually shared this the day that we got the
news of Quincy's passing, but I want to read it
again for you because I feel like it's really important
that you remember this. And this is a post that
Quincy put on his Facebook.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
I'm gonna cry.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Oh no, please don't cry.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
H February one, twenty seventeen. And I just I think
that he was spot on, and I want you to
carry those words with you. Always don't cry, says I.
Wish I could say it is in his voice, sonic.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
I'm not even gonna try.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
My sweet goddaughter, Emily is Stefan used to be so
afraid to sing that she wouldn't even sing.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
To herself, which is true, you guys don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
But I'm glad that she got over that because she's
blessed us with a voice that we needed. She also
taught herself drums, guitar, and keyboard by ear, and recently
graduated from my alma mater, Berkeley known as Shillinger House
when I was there, so I am proud, But I
mean with Gloria and Emilia was Stephan his parents, there's
no wonder where she got the talent. She started playing
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drums for her mom's concerts at age ten, and at
fifteen she played guitar on the Spanish version of We
Are the World twenty fifteen with her mom and pop.
I can't wait for you to blow everyone away at
your first headlining concert at Festival Miami tomorrow, Emily love
you girl with a link to.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
The tickets, so cute and plugging me.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
I love him and my favorite part is she's blessed
us with a voice.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
That we needed.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
No thank you for sharing that.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
So if Quincy saw something in you know that that
thing exists and you gotta listen.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Well, the story is apparently that he found out that
I was being born a whatnot. He goes, I'm gonna
be that baby's godfather.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Yeah, why, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Wow, he knew even before you were on the planet.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
He identified.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
It's actually a video where he was I was like
a couple of days old, A couple of times. I
just gave brother and I'm.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Like, ah, she puts her arm up for everyone to see.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
But no, I really do feel blessed and the world
is lucky to have him. And a chapter closes, but
I put a post online as well, and it really
explains how I feel about him, which is that like
he's gone, but he planted a lot of seeds and
a lot of people, and he left behind like a
really really beautiful garden, so it'll be alive many years
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and lots of music written and lots of forever. He's
lots of beautiful things still happening thanks to him, even
though he's not here. So thank you, Quincy, thank you,
and seriously, you won't regret it. Go learn it's just
a piece of history. He's a piece of history, not
just music, but he's a history period. And before we
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deorbit something that I know that Q would enjoy very much,
and in honor of him, to do you would laugh,
for he would laugh and probably be like Emily, but
oh you're funny. I just report the news. It's all
just the truth. But anyway, in honor of Q, we
have a music edition of Everybody's in a Network Spice news.
(27:55):
All right, ladies, George jermals, germats, germains. Have you heard
of NASA's soonification project. Uh, well you're about to. You
don't have a choice it twenty twenty, NASA's Chandra x
ray Center has been translating telescope data into notes and
subsequently into sounds by a process called signification. This allows
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people to experience the data through sounds instead of images.
Game detisanting. Funnily enough, Chandra X ray and Charlie XCX
are already booked for Coachella next year. She'll get your ticket, staffs.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
Everybody, Oh cool.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Though I want to hear data rep Nope, all right.
The tradition of waking American astronauts with a song from
Earth has instead of an alarm started during the two
day Gemini six mission in nineteen sixty five with a
version of Hello Dollards. Since then, wake up calls to
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ships and Shuttle cruise have included everything from Beethoven to Bowie,
Space Oddity of Course, and Tarkowsky ten thousand Maniacs. Pretty
much every genre of music, with the exception of thrash
metal and the song Great Balls of Fire by Jerry
Lee Luis. But for obvious reasons, you don't want to
listen to great balls of fire in space, No, but thanks,
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it is what it is. Lastly, in out of Space,
two Golden records as in musical records were sent on
voyager probes, containing music, greetings and natural sounds to explore
the entire galaxy in hopes that at some point it's
going to crash into an alien out there and that
will be what represents our huh yeah, what we essentially
(29:37):
want the extraterrestrials to see. In the first two gold
Press records there are Bach Mozart, Chuck Berry, Lower Spiegel,
the amazing synth artist Dravinsky, and even sounds of humpback
whales going With all the new attention and fear on
aliens though, and how we think that they might be
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surveilling us and maybe are going to pulverize it any minute,
You've decided to send out a new record containing songs
that might potentially scare aliens and divert them from Earth.
So yes, including and this is actual information, real information,
a ten minute version of WOP Never Gonna Give You
Up by Rick Astley, Baby Shark Remix and the recording
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of Fergie's National anim.
Speaker 6 (30:25):
What I Love gay Proof, Me too, gay proof and
this has been saynoozes, baby.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
What would what would you want the aliens to hear? Honestly? Thriller?
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Thriller?
Speaker 2 (30:41):
I mean it's literally best selling album of all time
with over seventy million copies sold. Thriller amazing. He also
revolutionized music videos. Is that ten minute video? It was like,
he's just an such an icon.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Well you, we love you. Thank you for the time,
your time on this planet. Yeah, selfishly, we could have
used more, but you had an incredible run. And like
I said, we will take care of the garden. And
for those of you out there, learn about him, be
somebody worth your time, and if not, I'm gonna find you. No.
All right, everybody, Well follow us on our socials at
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in our Own World Pod and we'll join you next
week for another flight on in our Own World Airlines.
We love you, Bye bye.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
I think I might want you to musical outro every
episode I.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
Love You.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
Launch.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
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