Quincy Jones: The Music Man

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4.6 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2016

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Quincy Jones’s fingerprints are all over America’s popular music. If you like Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Count Basie, Sarah Vaughan, Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson, or hundreds of other artists, you have heard his work, whether as an instrumentalist, a composer, a conductor, an arranger or a producer. He’s also scored dozens of movies and television shows, and been a philanthropist and activist. It is hard to overstate the impact he has had over the past 70 years. But this prodigiously productive and talented man came from difficult circumstances. In this episode you’ll hear Quincy Jones tell how he survived and made his own way, to have outsized impact on jazz, rock, soul, r&b and pop. Oh yeah, and you’ll hear some GREAT music! (c ) American Academy of Achievement 2016

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0:00.0	Welcome to what it takes. Today's episode is bubbling over with stories from one of the most
0:07.7	influential figures in American music, Quincy Jones.
0:12.6	What it takes, of course, is a podcast about passion, vision,
0:16.7	and perseverance from the Academy of Achievement's
0:20.1	Archive.
0:21.4	I'm Alice Winkler. I'm Alice Winkler. Had a man, this child is gifted.
0:27.8	And I heard that enough that I started to believe it.
0:31.0	If you have the opportunity, not a perfect opportunity, and you don't
0:35.3	take it, you may never have another chance.
0:37.5	It all was so clear. It was just like the picture started to form itself.
0:42.2	There was no way in which a lie could prevail over the truth.
0:46.0	Darkness over light, death over life.
0:50.0	Every day I wake up and decide,
0:52.0	today I'm going to love my life. Every day I wake up and decide.
0:52.7	Today I'm going to love my life.
0:55.4	Decide.
0:56.4	My advice is, if they go and break your leg once
1:00.0	when you go in that place, stay out of there.
1:02.4	And then along come these differential experiences that you don't look for, you don't plan for,
1:08.0	but boy you better not miss him.
1:14.0	If you listened to popular music during the 20th century and the 21st,
1:19.0	you have heard the work of Quincy Jones. He might have been the trumpeter or the conductor or the arranger when you heard him.
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