Quincy Jones Best Quotes

attempting to close the gaps between genres has allowed me to defy what is traditionally possible. I’ve never stayed within a single lane. Instead, as soon as I reach the end of one, I hop right on over to the next. I’ve tried my best to encourage musicians to do the same by inviting them to collaborate with other artists they would normally never think to work with. You can

These are things like Michael Jackson's Thriller, an album that was (1) produced by Quincy Jones, (2) features guitar playing by Eddie Van Halen, (3) includes at least three singles that ooze awesomeness, and (4) has the single best bass line from the entire 1980s (i.e., the opening of "Billie Jean"). It is a "guilty pleasure," presumably, because 45 million people liked it, and because Jackson is quite possibly a pedophile, a d because two dancers had a really unfair knife fight in the video for "Beat It." This is akin to considering Thomas Jefferson a "guilty pleasure" among presidents because he briefly owned a pet bear. I mean, he still wrote the fucking Declaration of Independence, you know?