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GQ interview. This dude is wild yo..
https://www.gq.com/story/quincy-jones-has-a-story
too long to cut and paste but there is a lot of wild shit in this interview:
like this...
Did you have any happy memories of your mother before things went wrong?
"No. No, not one."
When did you realize that she was troubled?
"Well, at that age it's not so easily identifiable exactly what the hell's wrong. But you can tell something's wrong. My brother and I, we were 6 and 7 years old, we watched her taken away in a straitjacket. That's tough, man. And we went out there to see her, Manteno State Hospital. Boy, that was heavy. When we first went in, there was a little blonde lady there, standing up with no shoes on, in her underwear, and she had a bowl of feces and she says, 'You shall have no pie!' I said, 'God, let me out of there.' "
I read that your mother did something awful, too.
"She went down and did number two."
And then ate it?
He nods. "We were, you know, 7 years old. It doesn't hit you that way it should hit you. On the way home, Lloyd said to me, 'My brother, you shall have no pie!' "
Even though, later, your mother recovered, you never really formed a bond with her?
"No. No, because you couldn't trust her emotionally. Nothing you ever did was right."
and this..
Would you ever go out with anyone your own age?
"Hell no!" Jones gives me a look, a kind of incredulity that is some mixture of horror and bewilderment. "You see me with an 84-year-old woman? Are you crazy?"
And why not?
"Why not??? Why? For what, man? There's nothing…there's no upside. You gotta be kidding. I got me some technology out there"—he gestures to the mansion's perimeter—"that keep fat and old away from here. Buzzes if they're too old. But you'd be surprised.… These women, the young ones, are aggressive now. Oh my God, they're fearless, man. All over the world."
and this...
Do you like any of the people who are big right now?
"Yeah, I love Kendrick Lamar, I love Bruno Mars, I love Drake, I love Ludacris, I love Common. Mary J. Blige. Jennifer Hudson."
But, say, Taylor Swift, I guess, is the biggest pop star on the planet in terms of sales right now and this week is about to sell over a million copies of her new album. Do you like her?
Jones makes a face, somewhere between disapproval and disdain.
What's wrong with it?
"We need more songs, man. Fucking songs, not hooks."
Some people consider her the great songwriter of our age.
He laughs. "Whatever crumbles your cookie."
**************** TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*
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