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["Summer in the City"
by Quincy Jones plays]
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Wow.
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Can you even fathom
what's happening, like...?
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You know what I'm saying?
This is so...
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fucking crazy.
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Quincy Jones' house, man.
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Believe it?
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So much history in here.
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Hey, baby. What a pleasure, man.
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[Dr. Dre] Thank you so much
for doing this.
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It's The Pharmacy with Dr. Dre,
special edition.
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- Yes, it is.
- 'Cause we have the legend of all legends.
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Quincy Jones. The legendary Quincy Jones.
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Man, y'all making me sound old.
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[laughter]
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- My ultimate mentor and inspiration.
- Don't even know how to drive.
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[Dr. Dre laughs] That's all right.
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You're the reason why
I decided to get into production.
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- So proud of him, my man.
- Yeah, thank you.
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- Thank you so much.
- No, I mean that, man.
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[Dr. Dre] So, I really wanted to know
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what type of struggles you had
and what did you have to go through?
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I wasn't born in Bel Air, man.
I'm from the South Side of Chicago, man.
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In the '30s, man, during the Depression,
damn, you kidding?
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We lost my mother when I was seven,
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and my brother and I, we were, like,
we were street rats, you know?
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I wanted to be a gangster till I was 11.
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Wow.
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- You want to be what you see.
- Right.
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And that's all we ever saw.
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You see that right there?
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I went on the wrong street
and they took a switchblade
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- and nailed my hand to a fence, man.
- What?
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Seven years old.
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- See this one here?
- Yeah.
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That's an ice pick, man.
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Wow.
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To know where you came from makes it
easier for you to get where you're going.
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And I learned a long time ago that
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your music can never be more or less
than you are as a human being.
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And that's very true.
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Wow, I... You know what?
I'm sitting here, just,
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really tripping the fuck out, man.
You are so...
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- [laughter]
- You are so inspiring, man.
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It's like... like, do you know
who you are, man? [laughs]
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It's Quincy Jones!
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["Stomp" by the Brothers Johnson plays]
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Mr. Quincy Jones.
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[inaudible]
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♪ Steppin' out, the weekend's open wide ♪
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♪ Fill it up... ♪
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The first thing is to be humble
with your creativity
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and graceful with your success.
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♪ While we're cruising around
In the street ♪
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♪ Listen up for the partying feet ♪
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♪ So, slap me five, that's the place
We've arrived ♪
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♪ It's alive! ♪
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♪ Everybody take it to the top... ♪
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You can't live without water or music.
You can't live without it.
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♪ In the neighborhood ♪
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Between Ray Charles and Sinatra,
I learned how to live.
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Sinatra wore it for 40 years himself
and then he left it to me
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and I never take it off.
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Quincy Jones!
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[cheering]
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What sign are you?
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What sign are you?
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What's your birth sign?
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Pisces. It's the same, we're both crazy.
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[woman] Gemini.
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Oh, God. Miles Davis and Prince.
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I've been in this business 70 years.
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It's unbelievable.
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Hey, baby.
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I got six daughters and one son.
That's why I don't have any hair.
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- What a great treat to see you here.
- You too, man.
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- How you been, man?
- I've been good, man, yeah.
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Great. We've been
doing concerts this year.
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You're kickin' ass.
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- Life's a motherfucker, isn't it, man?
- Oh, yeah.
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Pressure's on. Quincy's here.
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Help!
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How are you, guys?
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I can party all the time.
Never had a problem with that.
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♪ Wanna party ♪
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♪ Till the morning light ♪
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♪ Gonna stomp ♪
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♪ All night ♪
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♪ In the neighborhood... ♪
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- What?
- I can't be like you, I cannot...
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hang out all night and then...
No, I can't do that.
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Don't try to do what he's done.
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- [man] Yeah.
- No, 'cause you'll get your ass killed.
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[slurring] We worked the balls
off a pool table.
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[Rashida giggling]
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- Right, honey?
- [Rashida] Yeah, Dad.
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You must be so tired.
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- Honey, I'm past tired.
- Oh, Dad.
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I couldn't even stand up
for the second number.
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They gave us some serious wine, honey.
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[Rashida] I know, but six bottles?!
How you gonna get it back?
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We're gonna drink it here.
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- Are you shooting, honey?
- I am.
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I'm just learning. I'm not great
with a camera, I'm just learning how.
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- Cute shoes, Dad.
- [Quincy] Thank you, honey.
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- [Rashida] Really cute.
- [Quincy] Pimp shoes.
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[Rashida] Do you think it's easier
to be up late in LA, to work by yourself?
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- Yeah, absolutely.
- [Rashida] 'Cause nobody's up, right?
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Absolutely.
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Well, nobody's up that late anyway,
so I always wrote at night.
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- [Rashida] Right.
- The muses come out then, you know?
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- Right.
- Everybody used to say,
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"Keep your score paper and pen
right near you,
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'cause if you're not up, God will take it
down the street to Mancini."
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- [Rashida laughing]
- It's very true, honey.
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Haven't been sleeping a lot.
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- Been sleeping a lot, or haven't?
- I haven't been sleeping a lot, no.
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Too much on my mind, you know.
It's hard to turn it off.
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But let me ask you a question. Do you
think you could drink in moderation?
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- Do you think you could...
- Yeah, I do.
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Or do you think
it's a slippery slope, honestly?
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No, no, no,
it's not a slippery slope at all. No.
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But I want one badder than ever now.
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- [Rashida] You want what?
- A drink.
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["I've Got You Under My Skin"
by Cole Porter plays]
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[Bono] Dino, get me a bourbon.
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Where's Q?
Where's my... Where are ya?
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Oh, yeah!
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Come on!
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Oh, yeah!
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[inaudible]
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The seven of us all together.
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We're all family.
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- [woman] Thank you very much.
- Thank you.
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[cicadas chirping]
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- [Quincy] You know the palindromes?
- [Rashida] Mm-hmm.
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Just found a good one.
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"Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog."
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[Rashida giggling]
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Go... hang... a salami.
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[Quincy laughing] I love those.
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- These are amazing, did you try these?
- No.
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I wonder what's wrong with my appetite
though. Something's wrong.
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[Rashida] Really, Dad?
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- 'Cause you know me, I can eat, honey.
- I know, I don't like that.
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Yeah, but it's okay.
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It's all right. It'll be all right, honey.
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No... If you don't feel good,
you gotta take care of it.
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I will, I will.
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[phone picking up]
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[dispatcher]
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[man]
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[dispatcher]
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[phone hanging up]
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[monitors beeping]
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[ventilator exhaling]
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[blues guitar music]
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My mother had gone away sick one day.
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She kicked and screamed as they threw
a straitjacket on her and carried her out.
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And just like that, she was gone.
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Daddy was a carpenter for the Jones Boys,
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the black gangsters
that ran the ghetto back in Chicago.
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[inaudible]
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We fought, we stole,
we ran with gangs and from gangs.
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By that time, I was carrying a knife
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and doing whatever
I thought I had to do to survive.
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Why not?
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My world seemed to be senseless.
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If my mother could go crazy,
who couldn't?
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Daddy was in over his head
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and took us to stay with his mother.
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Grandma was a former slave.
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She cooked whatever
she could get her hands on.
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Mustard greens, okra, possums, and rats.
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We ate them
because that's all there was to eat.
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My mother broke out a couple of times,
and I remember, downstairs,
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we heard the glass breaking,
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and Daddy said,
"Sit down to the table and don't get up."
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He said, "It's your mama."
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Kids kept telling me,
"'Cause your mother's really messed up,
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and if she gets out,
she's gonna kill you guys," you know?
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And so I started to picture her
and associate her with a death threat.
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When she got out one time, she came
and we saw her running to us.
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We screamed
and we ran about seven blocks,
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we were so afraid, you know?
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I said, "I can't depend on a mother
'cause I don't have one,
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so I don't need one," you know?
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I was happy that Daddy said,
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"We're leaving town, we're leaving now.
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We're getting on a Trailway bus
and getting out of here."
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[monitors beeping]
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[doctor] Do you know the year?
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[quiet grunt]
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Do you know what year it is?
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- [Quincy] What year?
- Yeah. Mm-hmm.
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[Quincy] No.
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[doctor] Okay, it will come back. It will.
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[Quincy grunting] Okay.
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[doctor] Well, we had the new year,
so it's 2015.
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I get it, yeah.
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And the seventh
was when you got unconscious,
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because it's now the eleventh.
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So you lost four days out of your life.
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Who is the president?
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- What?
- Who's the president of the US?
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What's his name?
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Do you remember?
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[Quincy] Sarah Palin.
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[laughter]
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[doctor] I'm glad...
I'm glad some things haven't changed.
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[man] Oh.
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You have any idea what happened to you?
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[Quincy] No.
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[doctor] You were drinking too much.
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And when you came in that night,
you were having trouble breathing,
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your temperature was 103,
and your sugar was close to 1,000.
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You have to be on a low-sugar diet.
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Amazingly tough guy, huh?
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- [woman] Yeah.
- [man] That's for sure.
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- [monitors beeping]
- [ventilator pumping]
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[inaudible]
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[inaudible]
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You guys are so supportive, baby.
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I love them, so that's why
I got my shit together quick.
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It was really scary.
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I'm grateful to get that wake-up call.
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You know, grateful.
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After the operation,
in the hospital and everything,
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my mind went to another place, honey.
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And you reflect on things
you never thought about before.
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Like what?
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Vodka.
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That ain't gonna be no more.
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Nope.
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Not going out.
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Not yet.
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When I go out, I'll be ready.
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I'll be ready for it. Yeah.
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[laughter and chatter]
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- [man] Happy birthday, Q.
- Thank you, man. Thanks for coming by.
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- [woman] Love you.
- [Quincy] Love you too, honey.
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- Love you, honey.
- Love you, Daddy.
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Me, too.
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Love you, Dad.
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[woman] Smile, Dad. There you go, perfect.
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That's a whole lot of love.
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[all] ♪ Happy birthday
Happy birthday to ya ♪
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♪ Happy birthday to ya ♪
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♪ Happy birthday! ♪
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[woman] Yay!
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- Thank you guys so much.
- [cheering]
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I gotta tell you, I wish everybody here...
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a long, long, long-ass life...
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filled with a whole lot of, um...
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tons of...
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let's say...
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love to share...
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health to spare, and friends who care,
'cause that's really all that's important
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when you get down to it,
to the bottom of it.
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- I love you from the bottom of my heart.
- [women] We love you!
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- [applause]
- [woman] Make a wish.
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[applause and cheering]
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[laughter]
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[Quincy] Daddy found us a little house
in Washington state.
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He grabbed the toolbox
and joined the long line of black folks
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marching down the hill
to the naval shipyard.
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He was a workaholic.
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He tried to do everything he could
to make sure it worked, you know.
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I was on shaky waters with identity
as a child anyway,
270
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because, without Mama there,
you're not quite sure what's going down.
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At the time, we're talking about the '40s,
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in the school books,
black people didn't exist.
273
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We didn't know who we wanted to be like.
274
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There was nobody to see
that you wanted to be like, you know.
275
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One night, I broke into the armory.
276
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In the room,
there was an old upright piano.
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I tinkled on it for a moment,
278
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and I knew this was it for me, forever.
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I was in heaven.
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I took up percussion, trombone,
281
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sousaphone, B-flat baritone horn,
French horn,
282
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but I decided I wanted to play trumpet.
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I couldn't get enough.
284
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[trumpet music]
285
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Just that idea, to see black men
that were dignified and proud.
286
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I said, "That's what I want to be.
287
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I want to be in that family,
I'd do anything to be in that family."
288
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I used to hang backstage
with Count Basie and Clark Terry.
289
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I know I used to bother them to death,
290
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and they were kind enough to stop and say,
"Okay, here's how you do it."
291
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And they helped me.
292
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And I started to play in a band
when we were 14 years old
293
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and worked in the nightclubs.
294
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And after we finished, we used to go off
and jam all night playing bebop.
295
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And that's where everybody
was talking about this guy named R.C.,
296
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and he was 16 years old then.
297
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I was new in town
and this 14-year-old cat comes up to me.
298
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He said, "I'm Quincy Jones
and I play trumpet, and I want to write."
299
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We hit it off right away.
300
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[Quincy] Ray was so wise
when he was 16,
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and you know how it is,
when you have an older buddy
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that seems to have all the answers
for everything.
303
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He'd say, "Every music
has its own soul, Quincy.
304
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It doesn't matter what style it is,
just be true to it."
305
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[Ray Charles]
He's truly like a brother to me.
306
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In my mind, I sort of adopted him
like my brother.
307
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[Quincy] By then,
I had seriously discovered girls.
308
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I discovered the ladies
not in the same way I discovered music,
309
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but enough to win the heart
of a beautiful girl named Jeri Caldwell
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from my high school.
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Night after night, as I wandered
in and out of clubs, bars, and juke joints
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with my trumpet beneath my arm
and my scores tucked beneath my shirt,
313
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a tiny glint of something new
began to emerge in my life.
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Something I'd never had before.
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I had no control over where I lived,
no control over my sick mother.
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I couldn't control the angry whites
317
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who still called me "nigger"
when they caught me alone on the street.
318
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But music was one thing I could control.
319
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It was the one thing
that offered me my freedom.
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Lionel Hampton was like a god
in those days.
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He had the rockin'- est band in America.
322
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When he said, "Young huss,
you wanna join my band?"
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I said, "Yes, sir!"
324
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I was in the band!
325
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["Slide, Hamp, Slide" plays]
326
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Lionel Hampton would pass out
an itinerary of our schedule.
327
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Seventy straight nights.
328
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We worked non-stop, not one night off.
329
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At that time, all of the black bands
had white bus drivers
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to go in the restaurants to get the food
to bring it back to the band.
331
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We hit some city in Texas,
332
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and in the middle of the city,
333
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there's this small church,
334
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and there was a rope with a black dummy
hanging off of the steeple.
335
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This was everyday stuff then.
336
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You know you just better be careful.
337
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And the best thing
that ever happened to me was traveling.
338
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As soon as we got off the plane,
wherever it was, you know, Paris,
339
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Turkey, Pakistan, Casablanca...
340
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I made it my business
to get right into the lifestyle
341
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of the real people in the country.
342
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Is there some vodka?
343
00:20:30,187 --> 00:20:31,230
No, it's in there.
344
00:20:31,772 --> 00:20:33,149
Why no... why no vodka?
345
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[voices chattering]
346
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Thank you, baby.
347
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- So sweet.
- [Rashida] I'm nervous about Europe.
348
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I don't... Forget it, honey.
349
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- I don't even want wine.
- Really?
350
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- Nothing wrong with that.
- You're not gonna want...
351
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- It's not gonna be...
- No.
352
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- I don't think so, I think he feels okay.
- It's been five, six months.
353
00:20:55,296 --> 00:20:57,047
It's not even in my body anymore.
354
00:20:57,131 --> 00:20:59,133
- Not even the temptation, honey.
- Good.
355
00:21:01,719 --> 00:21:03,471
The girls are the only temptation.
356
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[laughs]
357
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["Soul Bossa Nova" by Quincy Jones plays]
358
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[inaudible]
359
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[inaudible]
360
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Give it up for my brother, D'Angelo.
361
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Mary J. Blige!
362
00:21:51,393 --> 00:21:54,730
My brother, Carlos Santana!
363
00:22:05,908 --> 00:22:08,285
- Boo!
- Hey, man, my baby.
364
00:22:08,619 --> 00:22:09,995
- Hey, Herbie.
- Hey, Q.
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00:22:10,246 --> 00:22:12,456
- How you doin', man?
- Good. Missing you, man.
366
00:22:12,540 --> 00:22:14,625
- You look great.
- [Quincy] I lost 50 pounds.
367
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Congratulations, man!
368
00:22:16,418 --> 00:22:18,504
- Thank you, sir, how...
- You started it.
369
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[Quincy] Bonsoir.
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[cheers and applause]
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Merci.
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00:22:25,928 --> 00:22:28,472
I just wanted to say first, tonight,
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how much I appreciate
being a part of this family.
374
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Very much so. Thank you.
375
00:22:34,353 --> 00:22:36,230
[cheers and applause]
376
00:22:36,313 --> 00:22:38,858
These next two incredible human beings,
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Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock!
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00:22:42,444 --> 00:22:43,445
Mon frère.
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[cheers and applause]
380
00:22:44,989 --> 00:22:46,574
- Hey, Herbie.
- Hey.
381
00:22:48,951 --> 00:22:49,952
- You got it?
- Got it.
382
00:22:50,035 --> 00:22:51,245
All right. All right.
383
00:22:51,328 --> 00:22:53,789
I'm really, really happy
how good you're looking, man.
384
00:22:53,873 --> 00:22:54,707
Thank you, man.
385
00:22:54,790 --> 00:22:57,459
Follow him. He told me a long time ago,
I didn't listen.
386
00:22:57,710 --> 00:22:59,003
He told me to stop drinking.
387
00:22:59,086 --> 00:23:01,922
- I worked on him for a while.
- He did! Ten years ago, man.
388
00:23:02,006 --> 00:23:03,883
I said to Herbie, "You must be crazy."
389
00:23:03,966 --> 00:23:05,968
Man, I've had less hair many times.
390
00:23:06,093 --> 00:23:08,053
- Brain operations and shit.
- Oh, yeah.
391
00:23:08,137 --> 00:23:10,097
- They're not getting you this time!
- Hell, no.
392
00:23:10,180 --> 00:23:12,683
You got a new "get out of jail free" card.
393
00:23:12,766 --> 00:23:13,766
That's right.
394
00:23:14,101 --> 00:23:16,729
- A government pass. [laughs]
- Yeah!
395
00:23:19,273 --> 00:23:21,025
[Quincy] Oh, amazing city.
396
00:23:21,734 --> 00:23:26,030
It's beautiful how your memories
stick with you, and the cities you love.
397
00:23:26,947 --> 00:23:30,409
- [Rashida] Does it hurt to leave?
- Yeah. It always hurts to leave.
398
00:23:31,118 --> 00:23:32,786
But I know I'll be back, though.
399
00:23:34,622 --> 00:23:37,499
[Rashida] Dad, how do you deal
with your ego and your art?
400
00:23:37,875 --> 00:23:38,875
You know...
401
00:23:39,543 --> 00:23:41,086
you need confidence, sure.
402
00:23:41,170 --> 00:23:43,339
- That's... I'm not denying that.
- [Rashida] Yeah.
403
00:23:43,422 --> 00:23:47,176
But the... an ego is usually just, uh...
404
00:23:49,053 --> 00:23:51,680
overdressed... insecurity.
405
00:23:51,764 --> 00:23:52,764
[Rashida] Mm.
406
00:23:53,849 --> 00:23:58,479
I think you have to dream so big
that you can't get an ego.
407
00:23:58,979 --> 00:24:00,981
'Cause you'll never fulfill
all those dreams.
408
00:24:02,149 --> 00:24:04,068
There's always more to come and learn.
409
00:24:05,527 --> 00:24:07,696
I learned a lot from the old guys, too.
410
00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:10,157
["Rat Race" by Count Basie plays]
411
00:24:12,117 --> 00:24:15,788
[Quincy] I left the Lionel Hampton Band
and I was off to New York City
412
00:24:15,871 --> 00:24:18,791
to follow my dream
of composing and arranging.
413
00:24:20,417 --> 00:24:23,295
I lived with my wife, Jeri,
and our baby, Jolie.
414
00:24:25,089 --> 00:24:27,716
This music called bebop
was being created in New York,
415
00:24:28,175 --> 00:24:30,511
and I was dying to get closer to it.
416
00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:35,182
I'd hang out at Birdland,
or other bars and clubs,
417
00:24:35,265 --> 00:24:36,934
always looking for the next job.
418
00:24:37,768 --> 00:24:39,645
I wrote for anybody who would pay.
419
00:24:41,021 --> 00:24:45,067
I met a singer named Dinah Washington
and she became a great friend to me.
420
00:24:45,901 --> 00:24:48,320
Dinah said, "I want you
to write my next record."
421
00:24:48,946 --> 00:24:52,241
Her label, Mercury Records, said,
"Nope, we want a name."
422
00:24:52,908 --> 00:24:55,119
Dinah said, "Here's a name for your ass.
423
00:24:55,202 --> 00:24:57,830
Dinah Washington,
and Quincy Jones is my arranger."
424
00:24:58,622 --> 00:25:00,457
The record was a big success.
425
00:25:00,541 --> 00:25:02,793
After that, the work started to flow.
426
00:25:04,044 --> 00:25:05,838
I did hundreds
of arrangements and recordings
427
00:25:05,921 --> 00:25:08,340
with the absolute best in the business.
428
00:25:09,133 --> 00:25:10,133
Louis Armstrong,
429
00:25:10,718 --> 00:25:11,969
Count Basie,
430
00:25:12,302 --> 00:25:13,554
Sarah Vaughan,
431
00:25:13,929 --> 00:25:15,055
Clark Terry,
432
00:25:15,556 --> 00:25:16,556
Dizzy Gillespie,
433
00:25:17,182 --> 00:25:19,268
and my buddy, Ray Charles.
434
00:25:19,685 --> 00:25:23,022
To really describe
the true soul in his arrangements,
435
00:25:23,105 --> 00:25:25,107
I can't really put it into words.
436
00:25:25,691 --> 00:25:29,236
It's just a feeling
that you can feel it all down in here,
437
00:25:29,319 --> 00:25:31,864
and before you know it,
you're tapping your toe, you know?
438
00:25:32,364 --> 00:25:34,074
[Quincy] With the work came money,
439
00:25:34,158 --> 00:25:35,993
and with the money came temptations.
440
00:25:36,577 --> 00:25:38,662
Women and money and work came together
441
00:25:39,163 --> 00:25:40,706
and I embraced them all.
442
00:25:42,124 --> 00:25:45,544
I was at a higher altitude
than I had ever dreamed possible.
443
00:25:46,837 --> 00:25:48,714
But I didn't know what was coming.
444
00:25:52,051 --> 00:25:55,763
My mother had searched for me for years
before finding me.
445
00:25:56,722 --> 00:25:58,015
God knows how she did it.
446
00:25:59,516 --> 00:26:01,101
She was a schizophrenic.
447
00:26:01,185 --> 00:26:03,062
Dementia praecox, they call it.
448
00:26:05,189 --> 00:26:08,525
I remember the first time I played
in Birdland with my own big band,
449
00:26:08,609 --> 00:26:11,487
and that is really
a serious dream to come true.
450
00:26:12,112 --> 00:26:13,489
My mother came,
451
00:26:13,947 --> 00:26:17,618
and when she walks in the door,
boy, you know, you can't ignore her.
452
00:26:17,951 --> 00:26:19,995
I knew she was gonna raise hell.
453
00:26:20,079 --> 00:26:21,955
So she came in and people said,
454
00:26:22,039 --> 00:26:24,458
"Sorry, ma'am, but you can't
come in here without a ticket."
455
00:26:24,541 --> 00:26:26,251
She just said, "Get out of the way!"
456
00:26:26,335 --> 00:26:28,545
I'm on the bandstand, trying to look cool,
457
00:26:28,629 --> 00:26:29,629
and it was pitiful.
458
00:26:30,631 --> 00:26:31,799
I was so embarrassed.
459
00:26:33,634 --> 00:26:35,844
She said, "God doesn't like sinners.
460
00:26:36,428 --> 00:26:39,223
Make music for God only
or you'll be redeemed in hell."
461
00:26:41,934 --> 00:26:43,477
I just closed down.
462
00:26:46,647 --> 00:26:48,941
Count Basie was like a father to me.
463
00:26:50,859 --> 00:26:53,695
"Learn to deal with the valleys, Quincy,"
he advised.
464
00:26:54,404 --> 00:26:56,490
"The hills will take care of themselves."
465
00:26:59,743 --> 00:27:02,204
I wanted to write
different kinds of music,
466
00:27:02,287 --> 00:27:03,956
you know, more than just jazz.
467
00:27:04,039 --> 00:27:06,041
Because in those days, in New York,
468
00:27:06,208 --> 00:27:08,961
they wouldn't let the black arrangers
write for strings.
469
00:27:09,044 --> 00:27:10,629
[orchestral string music plays]
470
00:27:11,672 --> 00:27:14,716
I moved to Paris in 1957
471
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:17,386
so that I could study
with Nadia Boulanger,
472
00:27:17,886 --> 00:27:19,888
the queen of classical music.
473
00:27:21,390 --> 00:27:24,935
This was a lady
that was Igor Stravinsky's mentor,
474
00:27:25,269 --> 00:27:27,646
and she also taught Leonard Bernstein.
475
00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:32,234
I said, "I really want to know
everything I can about orchestration."
476
00:27:33,235 --> 00:27:34,987
Her words stick with me a lot.
477
00:27:35,529 --> 00:27:38,240
She said,
"Quincy, there are only 12 notes.
478
00:27:39,199 --> 00:27:40,701
There really are only 12 notes,
479
00:27:41,326 --> 00:27:44,997
and you should really investigate
what everybody did with these 12 notes."
480
00:27:45,873 --> 00:27:47,624
And I never forgot that.
481
00:27:49,543 --> 00:27:53,797
In Paris, I did 200 sessions
with huge string sections
482
00:27:53,881 --> 00:27:56,758
and wrote for strings
until it came out of my ears.
483
00:27:59,511 --> 00:28:03,140
France made me feel free as an artist
and as a black man.
484
00:28:03,223 --> 00:28:05,601
["Soldier in the Rain"
by Henry Mancini plays]
485
00:28:13,108 --> 00:28:14,902
- [Quincy] Got so much shit going on.
- Yeah.
486
00:28:14,985 --> 00:28:17,946
That's an understatement, isn't it?
What's next?
487
00:28:18,488 --> 00:28:20,032
[Adam] Uh, the contracts.
488
00:28:20,782 --> 00:28:22,910
- I shouldn't sign this?
- Um, no, I wouldn't.
489
00:28:22,993 --> 00:28:23,994
- Okay.
- Not yet.
490
00:28:24,077 --> 00:28:27,581
Not until he sends you something
that's even remotely acceptable.
491
00:28:28,081 --> 00:28:30,167
- Great magazine. Jesus.
- [Adam] Isn't it awesome?
492
00:28:30,250 --> 00:28:31,919
Does it say anything on the Internet?
493
00:28:32,711 --> 00:28:34,254
Who else is involved in that?
494
00:28:34,338 --> 00:28:36,173
It's an understatement to say that.
495
00:28:36,256 --> 00:28:37,591
Put that in there too.
496
00:28:38,175 --> 00:28:39,259
How you doing, honey?
497
00:28:39,343 --> 00:28:40,969
- What you got, some pills?
- Yeah.
498
00:28:41,053 --> 00:28:42,804
- I'll take 'em.
- You have...? Okay.
499
00:28:45,140 --> 00:28:46,475
I'll definitely take 'em.
500
00:28:47,851 --> 00:28:49,478
[man] What else is on the list?
501
00:28:50,646 --> 00:28:53,232
The African-American Museum Smithsonian.
502
00:28:53,315 --> 00:28:56,818
Uh, they want you to produce
a TV special for the opening.
503
00:28:57,152 --> 00:29:00,197
Oh, the African-American
Smithsonian Institute,
504
00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:02,532
um, right in front
of the Lincoln Memorial.
505
00:29:03,742 --> 00:29:05,369
And they asked me to produce it?
506
00:29:06,036 --> 00:29:07,496
Then I'm gonna produce it.
507
00:29:09,456 --> 00:29:10,456
It's very...
508
00:29:10,832 --> 00:29:11,708
special, though.
509
00:29:11,792 --> 00:29:14,628
[man] Yeah, it's a pretty incredible
honor that you're...
510
00:29:14,711 --> 00:29:17,506
- Yeah, we gotta kill it, man.
- Who do you want for this show?
511
00:29:18,006 --> 00:29:21,635
It should be the top of every... category.
512
00:29:21,718 --> 00:29:26,014
Well, my immediate choice
would be Oprah, Will, and Jazzy Jeff.
513
00:29:26,098 --> 00:29:29,393
- Okay, add Will Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff.
- [man] Yep.
514
00:29:30,018 --> 00:29:31,353
[Quincy] Mary J. Blige.
515
00:29:31,853 --> 00:29:32,853
John Legend.
516
00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:35,691
- You want Herbie, right?
- Oh, for always.
517
00:29:36,108 --> 00:29:37,508
We should send a "save the date"...
518
00:29:37,567 --> 00:29:39,504
- [man] To all these people
- To all these artists.
519
00:29:39,528 --> 00:29:40,988
[Quincy] Yeah, definitely.
520
00:29:41,530 --> 00:29:42,864
Stevie for sure.
521
00:29:42,948 --> 00:29:43,948
Usher.
522
00:29:44,533 --> 00:29:46,034
My brother, Colin Powell.
523
00:29:46,243 --> 00:29:47,327
Dave Chappelle.
524
00:29:48,078 --> 00:29:50,956
Naturally, we should have the First Lady
and President on there.
525
00:29:51,039 --> 00:29:53,834
[woman] So cool, man... So cool!
526
00:29:53,917 --> 00:29:56,420
These are important moments in history
527
00:29:56,503 --> 00:29:58,964
and we're getting to watch
how it goes down.
528
00:29:59,047 --> 00:30:00,132
It's exciting.
529
00:30:02,634 --> 00:30:04,052
Another serious challenge.
530
00:30:04,136 --> 00:30:05,136
God...
531
00:30:05,470 --> 00:30:08,890
I love how I always end up jumping
into all this stuff, I can't believe it.
532
00:30:08,974 --> 00:30:10,225
Because it's not easy.
533
00:30:12,477 --> 00:30:13,979
Daddy got me to do that.
534
00:30:14,771 --> 00:30:19,985
He always said, "Once a... task has
just begun, never leave it till it's done.
535
00:30:20,277 --> 00:30:23,572
Be the labor great or small,
do it well or not at all."
536
00:30:24,698 --> 00:30:26,533
Every day, he told us that.
537
00:30:29,578 --> 00:30:31,163
[frantic cymbals playing]
538
00:30:31,455 --> 00:30:34,833
[Quincy] In 1959, I had assembled
a dream big band
539
00:30:34,916 --> 00:30:36,877
for a show called Free and Easy.
540
00:30:38,545 --> 00:30:41,548
It was the greatest band
I could ever dream of.
541
00:30:42,758 --> 00:30:45,844
["The Birth of a Band"
by Quincy Jones plays]
542
00:30:47,763 --> 00:30:49,973
After six weeks, the show closed.
543
00:30:52,142 --> 00:30:53,477
I couldn't stand it.
544
00:30:55,020 --> 00:30:56,772
So I stood up and told the band,
545
00:30:57,522 --> 00:30:59,399
"Let's stay here and tough it out."
546
00:31:01,151 --> 00:31:03,028
Every single one of them agreed.
547
00:31:04,529 --> 00:31:06,031
[inaudible]
548
00:31:06,114 --> 00:31:09,326
But after ten months
of hauling 30 people across Europe,
549
00:31:09,743 --> 00:31:11,203
I started to break down.
550
00:31:13,038 --> 00:31:14,498
We were stuck over there.
551
00:31:15,665 --> 00:31:17,751
I had no money. I didn't know what to do.
552
00:31:19,628 --> 00:31:21,129
It was time to go home.
553
00:31:22,297 --> 00:31:26,802
The band and myself, we'd like to say
auf Wiedersehen, au revoir, and goodbye.
554
00:31:28,470 --> 00:31:30,889
For the first time in my adult life,
555
00:31:31,014 --> 00:31:33,225
I went out and got me a real job.
556
00:31:37,437 --> 00:31:39,815
I was working as an executive
at Mercury Records
557
00:31:39,898 --> 00:31:44,361
trying to get from under the $145,000 debt
from the Free and Easy tour.
558
00:31:45,487 --> 00:31:48,907
I said, "Well, pop music is not
that big a deal, you know, to do."
559
00:31:48,990 --> 00:31:51,790
And they just kept saying, "Well, why
don't you do something about it?"
560
00:31:52,369 --> 00:31:54,913
It turned out to be
a little harder than I thought.
561
00:31:55,455 --> 00:31:58,792
Plowing through piles of demo tapes,
listening to bad songs.
562
00:31:59,876 --> 00:32:02,629
One afternoon,
they tossed a tape down the table.
563
00:32:03,004 --> 00:32:05,674
I said, "I'd like
to take a shot with this."
564
00:32:06,675 --> 00:32:10,220
It was a 16-year-old kid from New Jersey
named Lesley Gore.
565
00:32:10,929 --> 00:32:13,140
We cut a single called "It's My Party".
566
00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:16,893
♪ It's my party
And I'll cry if I want to ♪
567
00:32:16,977 --> 00:32:20,147
♪ Cry if I want to, cry if I want to... ♪
568
00:32:20,230 --> 00:32:21,815
[Quincy] It went to number one.
569
00:32:22,315 --> 00:32:24,276
We had 18 hits with Lesley.
570
00:32:27,946 --> 00:32:30,574
It was hard
being married to Quincy, you know.
571
00:32:30,949 --> 00:32:32,701
There was so much infidelity
572
00:32:33,076 --> 00:32:37,164
and he had so much ambition,
and that got in the way.
573
00:32:37,706 --> 00:32:39,416
And I always felt he loved me,
574
00:32:39,749 --> 00:32:42,127
but I was the wife at home
and he went out,
575
00:32:42,210 --> 00:32:45,338
and he had a lot of good times without me,
576
00:32:45,422 --> 00:32:47,799
and he grew in ways that I wasn't growing.
577
00:32:49,301 --> 00:32:51,887
That was why we got divorced.
578
00:32:58,268 --> 00:33:00,228
[Quincy] I had messed that marriage up.
579
00:33:01,646 --> 00:33:03,231
Like my daddy before me,
580
00:33:03,899 --> 00:33:05,108
I focused on work.
581
00:33:14,826 --> 00:33:17,913
["Stuff Like That" playing in distance]
582
00:33:17,996 --> 00:33:19,247
[Quincy] Man, let's hang.
583
00:33:19,331 --> 00:33:20,624
- Okay.
- I'm serious, man.
584
00:33:20,707 --> 00:33:22,876
- You serious?
- There ain't many of us left!
585
00:33:23,293 --> 00:33:25,253
- Is there?
- You got it.
586
00:33:29,424 --> 00:33:30,550
[Quincy] Miss ya, man.
587
00:33:30,634 --> 00:33:32,928
Q... How you feelin', boss?
588
00:33:33,011 --> 00:33:35,347
- Thank you for the other night, man.
- Oh, any time.
589
00:33:35,430 --> 00:33:36,470
- It was great.
- Any time.
590
00:33:36,515 --> 00:33:37,849
- Hey, baby.
- Hey.
591
00:33:38,558 --> 00:33:40,328
- [Quincy] How old are you now?
- Eighty-nine!
592
00:33:40,352 --> 00:33:41,561
I'm right behind you.
593
00:33:41,645 --> 00:33:42,687
How are you, sweetheart?
594
00:33:42,771 --> 00:33:44,411
- I'm really good.
- You're burning, girl!
595
00:33:44,731 --> 00:33:46,566
- Hey, baby.
- Hey, man.
596
00:33:46,650 --> 00:33:48,109
[Jarreau laughing]
597
00:33:48,735 --> 00:33:50,904
These cats been dropping
out of here like flies, man.
598
00:33:50,987 --> 00:33:51,863
[man] I don't like it.
599
00:33:51,947 --> 00:33:54,324
Jesus Christ, man, we lost Louis Johnson,
600
00:33:55,075 --> 00:33:56,785
Lesley Gore, Clark Terry.
601
00:33:56,868 --> 00:33:57,869
It don't stop.
602
00:33:57,953 --> 00:34:01,581
George Duke, Joe Sample.
It's fuckin' insane, man.
603
00:34:02,624 --> 00:34:03,624
Insane.
604
00:34:04,584 --> 00:34:07,420
Tonight, we are gathered together
to honor...
605
00:34:08,296 --> 00:34:12,050
and pay tribute to my dear, dear friend
606
00:34:12,133 --> 00:34:16,012
and present him
with this year's humanitarian award.
607
00:34:17,097 --> 00:34:19,097
God bless all of you people
for being here tonight.
608
00:34:19,140 --> 00:34:21,184
You have no idea
what you've done to this...
609
00:34:21,268 --> 00:34:23,228
to make this soul smile tonight.
610
00:34:23,311 --> 00:34:25,480
It's just unbelievable and it's, uh...
611
00:34:25,730 --> 00:34:27,732
I'm only 82, you know, so...
612
00:34:27,816 --> 00:34:29,317
[cheering]
613
00:34:29,401 --> 00:34:31,528
[applause]
614
00:34:31,987 --> 00:34:35,991
I was very ill
at the beginning of this year... and...
615
00:34:36,575 --> 00:34:41,121
they... say that cliché, you know,
"I almost died."
616
00:34:41,204 --> 00:34:42,204
Well, I did.
617
00:34:42,581 --> 00:34:44,165
And then I got a...
618
00:34:44,624 --> 00:34:46,084
email from heaven,
619
00:34:46,167 --> 00:34:47,752
and it said, "Brother Jones,
620
00:34:48,044 --> 00:34:52,382
we already got Ray Charles,
Frank Sinatra, Charlie Parker,
621
00:34:52,465 --> 00:34:54,843
Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, and stuff.
622
00:34:54,926 --> 00:34:56,845
We don't need any more headaches
up here, man.
623
00:34:56,928 --> 00:34:59,931
Stay home.
Keep your black booty home."
624
00:35:00,015 --> 00:35:01,391
[laughs]
625
00:35:01,474 --> 00:35:03,226
[applause]
626
00:35:06,396 --> 00:35:09,774
[Quincy] I was sitting in my office
one day in New York in '64
627
00:35:09,858 --> 00:35:11,067
and the phone rang.
628
00:35:11,818 --> 00:35:12,861
I picked it up.
629
00:35:12,944 --> 00:35:15,989
I heard him say, "This is Frank Sinatra.
630
00:35:16,656 --> 00:35:18,700
I like what you and Basie did together
631
00:35:18,783 --> 00:35:21,828
and I'd like you to arrange and conduct
my next album,
632
00:35:21,953 --> 00:35:23,580
It Might As Well Be Swing.
633
00:35:24,956 --> 00:35:29,169
That call from Frank was a major
turning point in my career and my life.
634
00:35:30,587 --> 00:35:32,130
He tested me in the beginning.
635
00:35:32,589 --> 00:35:35,050
And he said,
"That instrumentation's a little too...
636
00:35:35,133 --> 00:35:37,594
dense in the first eight bars."
637
00:35:38,178 --> 00:35:39,512
I said, "No problem, man."
638
00:35:40,930 --> 00:35:44,351
Well, he'd go ten feet away
where there was a table or a desk,
639
00:35:44,434 --> 00:35:46,311
and he'd fix it in no time.
640
00:35:46,394 --> 00:35:49,147
It always amazed me
that a man could do that,
641
00:35:49,230 --> 00:35:51,858
change all of those notes
that he had written before.
642
00:35:52,942 --> 00:35:55,362
[Quincy] He was shocked,
'cause I was 29, right?
643
00:35:55,445 --> 00:35:57,530
He was used to working with guys
that were 50.
644
00:35:58,114 --> 00:36:00,283
After that, it was total trust, man.
645
00:36:00,950 --> 00:36:01,950
Total trust.
646
00:36:02,369 --> 00:36:04,454
I would like to have you meet a gentleman
647
00:36:04,537 --> 00:36:06,748
who's been doing
these marvelous orchestrations for me,
648
00:36:06,831 --> 00:36:09,000
Mr. Quincy Jones, right there.
649
00:36:09,084 --> 00:36:09,918
[applause]
650
00:36:10,001 --> 00:36:11,670
Q, Mr. Quincy Jones.
651
00:36:12,420 --> 00:36:13,420
[Quincy] Thank you.
652
00:36:16,633 --> 00:36:19,219
One of the bright young stars
in the orchestrating business.
653
00:36:19,302 --> 00:36:20,136
Q, go ahead.
654
00:36:20,220 --> 00:36:22,931
[intro to "Fly Me to the Moon" plays]
655
00:36:29,020 --> 00:36:30,730
[Quincy] Frank was just my style.
656
00:36:31,356 --> 00:36:33,733
He was hip, straight-up
and straight-ahead,
657
00:36:33,817 --> 00:36:36,444
and above all, a monster musician.
658
00:36:37,237 --> 00:36:39,239
♪ Fly me to the moon ♪
659
00:36:40,365 --> 00:36:42,867
♪ Let me swing among the stars... ♪
660
00:36:43,660 --> 00:36:46,246
Quincy's drive
is what made the difference
661
00:36:46,329 --> 00:36:48,415
in the recordings that I began to do.
662
00:36:49,708 --> 00:36:54,087
The orchestra drove harder
than they did before the days with Quincy.
663
00:36:55,672 --> 00:36:58,007
[Quincy] Frank was at the height
of his powers
664
00:36:58,383 --> 00:37:00,844
and I was running his musical ship,
665
00:37:01,386 --> 00:37:02,971
the greatest band in the world.
666
00:37:03,054 --> 00:37:05,682
♪ I love you ♪
667
00:37:06,683 --> 00:37:09,227
♪ Fly, fly, fly! ♪
668
00:37:17,277 --> 00:37:19,195
[Sinatra] We became very fast friends,
669
00:37:19,279 --> 00:37:21,406
forgetting about all the work
we had to do.
670
00:37:22,866 --> 00:37:25,201
[Quincy] Frank led me
into a brand new world...
671
00:37:25,285 --> 00:37:26,369
[inaudible]
672
00:37:26,453 --> 00:37:28,705
...a land of dreams and high living,
673
00:37:28,788 --> 00:37:32,292
anything you felt like doing,
whenever you felt like doing it.
674
00:37:33,418 --> 00:37:35,587
And making the music we both loved.
675
00:37:37,839 --> 00:37:40,216
♪ Why don't you fill my heart... ♪
676
00:37:40,300 --> 00:37:44,429
[Quincy] During this time, I was
with some of the finest women in the world
677
00:37:45,096 --> 00:37:47,515
and had a brief affair
with a dancer named Carol.
678
00:37:47,932 --> 00:37:51,102
My second lovely daughter, Rachel,
was born as a result.
679
00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:54,606
It was a mind-boggling time.
680
00:37:55,857 --> 00:37:59,736
The astronauts on Apollo 10 took
a little tape recorder along with them
681
00:37:59,819 --> 00:38:04,699
and they played that tune back to Earth
from about 150,000 miles in space.
682
00:38:04,783 --> 00:38:08,661
[astronaut] This is just so that you guys
don't forget what your job is down there.
683
00:38:08,745 --> 00:38:09,745
We're ready.
684
00:38:10,205 --> 00:38:14,793
[crackly Sinatra] ♪ Fly me to the moon
Let me play among the stars... ♪
685
00:38:14,876 --> 00:38:18,147
[Quincy] Frank called up when they played
that music on the moon, like a little kid.
686
00:38:18,171 --> 00:38:21,549
"Can you believe that, man?" I said,
"No, man, the first music on the moon?
687
00:38:21,633 --> 00:38:23,843
Give me a break, man."
You can't plan that!
688
00:38:26,846 --> 00:38:29,349
Frank was so buzzed about Basie's band
689
00:38:29,432 --> 00:38:33,311
that he took the entire band
to Las Vegas in 1964.
690
00:38:35,271 --> 00:38:37,607
Vegas was mob territory back then.
691
00:38:37,690 --> 00:38:39,943
No black entertainer in their right mind
692
00:38:40,026 --> 00:38:42,237
would wander around
those casino hotels alone.
693
00:38:42,946 --> 00:38:45,824
It was a trip 'cause Sammy Davis,
694
00:38:45,907 --> 00:38:47,909
or Lena Horne, Belafonte,
695
00:38:47,992 --> 00:38:50,745
they used to work in the big room
as the stars,
696
00:38:50,829 --> 00:38:52,914
but they had to eat in the kitchen.
697
00:38:52,997 --> 00:38:54,499
They couldn't go in the casino
698
00:38:54,624 --> 00:38:57,293
and they had to sleep
in the black hotels across town.
699
00:38:58,503 --> 00:39:01,840
[Sinatra] Bigotry is a terrible disease,
it's a very bad disease.
700
00:39:03,216 --> 00:39:05,093
I began to make noise about it.
701
00:39:06,094 --> 00:39:08,447
I said, "If they all have to live
on the other side of town,
702
00:39:08,471 --> 00:39:09,681
then you don't need me."
703
00:39:10,682 --> 00:39:14,561
Suddenly, it changed.
And I can't explain to you what happened.
704
00:39:16,020 --> 00:39:18,231
[Quincy] Frank, by himself,
stopped all that.
705
00:39:18,773 --> 00:39:20,650
He said, "We're gonna fix this shit."
706
00:39:21,317 --> 00:39:22,317
And he did.
707
00:39:23,111 --> 00:39:27,240
He took Sammy, Basie, and myself
and changed the whole racial situation.
708
00:39:28,283 --> 00:39:31,578
♪ This is my first affair, so... ♪
709
00:39:33,329 --> 00:39:35,164
♪ Please be kind... ♪
710
00:39:35,915 --> 00:39:40,295
[Sinatra] Working with Basie and Quincy
was the most exciting engagement
711
00:39:40,378 --> 00:39:42,839
I have ever done in my life
since I've been performing.
712
00:39:42,922 --> 00:39:44,549
♪ Please be kind ♪
713
00:39:44,632 --> 00:39:45,550
Jump, Q, jump!
714
00:39:45,633 --> 00:39:48,428
- [brass section kicks in]
- [scatting]
715
00:39:48,511 --> 00:39:51,180
Quincy had a key to the Basie band...
716
00:39:51,556 --> 00:39:54,183
more than any other orchestrator
that I know of.
717
00:39:58,938 --> 00:40:01,065
And I began to realize
that he was a giant.
718
00:40:02,442 --> 00:40:04,444
♪ Please... ♪
719
00:40:04,527 --> 00:40:06,070
[Quincy] I loved him, man.
720
00:40:06,487 --> 00:40:08,072
I know he loved me too.
721
00:40:09,741 --> 00:40:11,492
In all the years working together,
722
00:40:11,576 --> 00:40:12,994
just like with Ray Charles,
723
00:40:13,077 --> 00:40:16,372
we never once had a contract...
just a handshake.
724
00:40:17,749 --> 00:40:18,917
[applause]
725
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:20,835
[Sinatra] Quincy turned out to be...
726
00:40:21,336 --> 00:40:23,755
one of the finest musicians
that I've ever known.
727
00:40:28,009 --> 00:40:31,346
[Quincy] After my time with Frank,
I wanted to move out of New York
728
00:40:31,429 --> 00:40:33,264
and get into LA film scoring.
729
00:40:34,349 --> 00:40:37,644
I didn't see blacks' names on the screens,
you know, as composers.
730
00:40:37,977 --> 00:40:40,063
There weren't any black composers at all.
731
00:40:41,439 --> 00:40:43,232
So I just took that chance.
732
00:40:43,316 --> 00:40:46,152
I said, "I don't know, maybe I won't
make it out there, but I'm goin'."
733
00:40:47,111 --> 00:40:48,863
A friend of mine was doing a movie,
734
00:40:49,405 --> 00:40:53,076
and he said, "They're thinking
about Quincy Jones for a movie."
735
00:40:53,826 --> 00:40:55,453
I said, "Yes, great, great."
736
00:40:55,536 --> 00:40:59,374
He said, "Can black men
write movie music?"
737
00:40:59,832 --> 00:41:02,418
I said, "Of course they can!"
738
00:41:04,128 --> 00:41:08,675
[Quincy] There was a lot of reluctance...
"How can you write for a white star?"
739
00:41:10,343 --> 00:41:13,471
I thought that it was just a dream
that I'd have to hold on to.
740
00:41:19,852 --> 00:41:22,772
First of all,
thank you very much for being...
741
00:41:22,855 --> 00:41:24,649
- My pleasure, man.
- It's an honor.
742
00:41:24,732 --> 00:41:26,484
I've been with The Post for a long time.
743
00:41:27,068 --> 00:41:30,071
Why do you think it's taken so long
to get this thing done?
744
00:41:30,196 --> 00:41:33,116
'Cause I read that it was like 1905
when they started talking about it.
745
00:41:33,199 --> 00:41:35,759
But it's taken a long time
to keep them from shootin' black kids.
746
00:41:35,785 --> 00:41:38,788
This happens...
Probably last night it happened. Come on.
747
00:41:38,871 --> 00:41:42,375
'Cause the racism has been
buried and hidden, you know.
748
00:41:42,458 --> 00:41:45,437
In the South, it's open, you know
who you're dealing with, but in the North,
749
00:41:45,461 --> 00:41:48,381
it's disguised with all the bullshit,
you know.
750
00:41:48,464 --> 00:41:50,064
- [Geoff] Yeah.
- And that's the problem.
751
00:41:50,091 --> 00:41:52,171
So, this museum...
There are millions of museums here
752
00:41:52,218 --> 00:41:54,345
but why is that museum
so important right now?
753
00:41:54,429 --> 00:41:57,765
Well, young black kids need to know
where they come from.
754
00:41:58,641 --> 00:42:02,729
Bebop, doo-wop, and hip hop, and all
that stuff is all sociological, you know.
755
00:42:02,812 --> 00:42:07,692
Hopefully, the juice that we generate
about the museum is gonna help.
756
00:42:07,775 --> 00:42:10,445
- Yeah.
- They say, "Hey, you gotta be part of this
757
00:42:10,528 --> 00:42:12,196
for the young kids of tomorrow."
758
00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:14,323
- [Geoff] Yeah.
- That's what's important for me.
759
00:42:14,407 --> 00:42:15,825
- What...
- 'Cause it's big, man.
760
00:42:16,242 --> 00:42:18,619
It's something
I've wanted all my life to see.
761
00:42:18,703 --> 00:42:20,848
Can you tell me a little bit
about what's gonna happen?
762
00:42:20,872 --> 00:42:22,582
- No.
- No? It's a total secret?
763
00:42:22,665 --> 00:42:24,042
- Nothing.
- Under wraps?
764
00:42:24,125 --> 00:42:25,418
- Nothing.
- [Geoff] Okay.
765
00:42:25,501 --> 00:42:27,336
It's not a surprise if I tell you.
766
00:42:28,004 --> 00:42:31,174
So I don't get anything,
no Stevie Wonder there or anything?
767
00:42:44,729 --> 00:42:46,731
- Tack så mycket.
- Varsågod.
768
00:42:47,356 --> 00:42:49,358
- [camera shutter clicking]
- Lookin' good.
769
00:42:51,986 --> 00:42:54,072
[Quincy] ♪ Brother, brother, brother... ♪
770
00:42:55,073 --> 00:42:57,492
[humming Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On"]
771
00:42:57,575 --> 00:42:58,951
And do it to the camera, yeah.
772
00:43:01,329 --> 00:43:03,915
[photographer] Can I take one more?
Sitting, exactly like that.
773
00:43:03,998 --> 00:43:04,998
Yeah.
774
00:43:05,917 --> 00:43:08,169
[camera shutter clicking]
775
00:43:11,756 --> 00:43:14,383
- [photographer] I'm fine, I'm happy.
- You cool? Good.
776
00:43:14,926 --> 00:43:16,344
I'm tired, man, I'm sorry.
777
00:43:16,427 --> 00:43:19,764
- It's an honor, thank you so much.
- My pleasure. Tack så mycket.
778
00:43:23,101 --> 00:43:24,811
[playing discordant notes]
779
00:43:27,855 --> 00:43:28,855
Hmm?
780
00:43:29,982 --> 00:43:31,234
[sighing]
781
00:43:31,859 --> 00:43:34,070
[quick high notes]
782
00:43:38,866 --> 00:43:40,868
[playing a gentle, melodic piece]
783
00:44:19,949 --> 00:44:21,534
[piano melody continuing]
784
00:45:03,326 --> 00:45:05,328
[film viewer whirring]
785
00:45:11,083 --> 00:45:14,086
[Quincy] When composers
get started on a film,
786
00:45:14,420 --> 00:45:18,549
I think they spend the roughest parts
of it scraping away...
787
00:45:19,550 --> 00:45:21,886
the bullshit, you know, in their life.
788
00:45:23,679 --> 00:45:26,515
They have to really scrape away
so there's nothing left but truth.
789
00:45:26,599 --> 00:45:29,769
[inaudible]
790
00:45:29,852 --> 00:45:32,539
Because I don't think you can write,
can't create anything without...
791
00:45:32,563 --> 00:45:34,023
feeling right with the truth.
792
00:45:34,106 --> 00:45:35,942
[viewer whirring]
793
00:45:41,239 --> 00:45:44,659
You have to find something
to grab a hold of to believe in,
794
00:45:44,742 --> 00:45:45,742
or you can't write.
795
00:45:50,122 --> 00:45:54,293
I can't say, "This'll be good enough,"
or your senses won't react.
796
00:45:58,130 --> 00:46:01,801
You make a desperate escape
to get down into the subconscious,
797
00:46:01,884 --> 00:46:03,724
which I really think
all the goodies come from.
798
00:46:03,803 --> 00:46:07,223
["The Separation" by Quincy Jones
from The Color Purple plays]
799
00:46:52,310 --> 00:46:56,063
After you finish the quiet moments
of writing,
800
00:46:57,231 --> 00:47:00,359
I just like to groove with my family then,
and enjoy all of it.
801
00:47:00,443 --> 00:47:03,237
["To Sir With Love" by Quincy Jones plays]
802
00:47:10,828 --> 00:47:13,414
My wife, Ulla,
she's from Stockholm originally,
803
00:47:13,706 --> 00:47:17,918
and we have two kids that I just can't
stay away from for two minutes.
804
00:47:26,427 --> 00:47:28,304
My biggest hobby is my family.
805
00:47:28,387 --> 00:47:31,807
It's a complete contrast
to when we go in to record.
806
00:47:33,100 --> 00:47:35,603
- [man] Ready with the playback, Quincy.
- Thank you.
807
00:47:35,978 --> 00:47:37,813
[Quincy] It's such a moment of tension
808
00:47:37,897 --> 00:47:40,232
when you're trying to coordinate
so many elements...
809
00:47:40,316 --> 00:47:43,402
when we're involved with technicians,
lots of musicians and...
810
00:47:43,986 --> 00:47:45,905
lots of money being spent per hour,
811
00:47:45,988 --> 00:47:47,573
and so the pace tightens up.
812
00:47:47,656 --> 00:47:48,991
Three and four, a 56.
813
00:47:49,075 --> 00:47:51,202
Everything has to come into play
at that time.
814
00:47:51,660 --> 00:47:54,205
[intro to "They Call Me Mister Tibbs!"
plays]
815
00:48:12,556 --> 00:48:13,891
It's just beginning to become
816
00:48:13,974 --> 00:48:16,477
so that it isn't such a sensationalism
817
00:48:16,560 --> 00:48:20,189
to see interracial love relationships
or even, uh...
818
00:48:20,606 --> 00:48:24,527
uh, the role of where the black man
really plays the role of a man,
819
00:48:24,610 --> 00:48:25,903
rather than just a character.
820
00:48:33,494 --> 00:48:35,871
[Quincy] But as my career
began to move forward...
821
00:48:36,622 --> 00:48:39,875
my relationship with Ulla
was starting to show cracks.
822
00:48:42,378 --> 00:48:44,672
I never came close
to being a perfect father.
823
00:48:45,631 --> 00:48:48,968
But I always, always loved my kids deeply.
824
00:48:51,804 --> 00:48:55,307
One day, Ulla announced she was
going to visit her mother in Sweden.
825
00:48:56,642 --> 00:48:59,895
I didn't want her to take the kids along
but there was no arguing.
826
00:49:02,064 --> 00:49:04,358
A week later, Ulla called from Sweden
827
00:49:04,442 --> 00:49:08,112
and adamantly proclaimed
that she was not coming back, period.
828
00:49:09,238 --> 00:49:11,532
She was staying there
and keeping the kids.
829
00:49:13,826 --> 00:49:15,870
My heart fell to my feet.
830
00:49:15,953 --> 00:49:18,038
["Family Man" by Quincy Jones plays]
831
00:49:20,499 --> 00:49:21,667
I couldn't handle it.
832
00:49:32,636 --> 00:49:34,396
- [Quincy] What time do we start?
- Now, sir.
833
00:49:35,014 --> 00:49:36,056
Let's hit it.
834
00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:40,144
- Hur mår du pappa?
- Skit bra.
835
00:49:40,227 --> 00:49:41,227
[laughter]
836
00:49:41,270 --> 00:49:42,605
[applause]
837
00:49:43,314 --> 00:49:45,608
So, you have an incredible work ethic,
838
00:49:45,691 --> 00:49:47,568
and, I mean, I've never seen
anything like it.
839
00:49:47,651 --> 00:49:49,612
I mean, at no point in my life
840
00:49:49,695 --> 00:49:52,490
have I ever been able
to hang with you 24/7 and I can keep up.
841
00:49:52,573 --> 00:49:54,074
It's... it's crazy.
842
00:49:54,533 --> 00:49:56,785
Where did that come from?
And what is in your water?
843
00:49:56,869 --> 00:49:58,829
It's probably from not having a mother.
844
00:49:59,371 --> 00:50:00,789
You know, really, yeah.
845
00:50:00,873 --> 00:50:05,294
At seven, we were, like, deserted.
They took her away to this mental home.
846
00:50:05,377 --> 00:50:09,006
And my grandmother
was an ex-slave, you know.
847
00:50:09,089 --> 00:50:12,718
America's just trying to get over
that... that part of their history
848
00:50:12,801 --> 00:50:16,764
'cause it was terrible, terrible, man,
and we experienced it, you know.
849
00:50:16,847 --> 00:50:19,141
Ray Charles and I used to say,
back in the '40s,
850
00:50:19,225 --> 00:50:23,270
"Not one drop of my self-worth
depends on your acceptance of me."
851
00:50:23,771 --> 00:50:25,564
Because you can't be that vulnerable.
852
00:50:25,648 --> 00:50:29,735
Not back then, the '30s and '40s.
The '50s, man?! You kidding?
853
00:50:36,825 --> 00:50:38,369
Oh, hey, look at this, man!
854
00:50:38,452 --> 00:50:39,787
You know I love that.
855
00:50:40,329 --> 00:50:41,329
Mm-hm.
856
00:50:43,207 --> 00:50:45,501
Jesus Christ, I'll take it.
857
00:50:48,963 --> 00:50:50,214
They're killing me!
858
00:50:50,297 --> 00:50:52,424
Sometimes I step in too deep.
Like, look at that.
859
00:50:52,508 --> 00:50:53,342
[chuckles]
860
00:50:53,425 --> 00:50:57,012
We go to Georgia,
the Black Sea Festival in Georgia, Russia.
861
00:50:57,513 --> 00:50:58,639
Then we go to Zurich.
862
00:50:58,722 --> 00:50:59,722
Then...
863
00:50:59,890 --> 00:51:02,393
the big one, the Smithsonian.
864
00:51:02,476 --> 00:51:05,479
We produce the Smithsonian,
African-American Museum.
865
00:51:05,563 --> 00:51:09,275
Obama, uh, he cuts the ribbon at noon.
866
00:51:09,358 --> 00:51:11,402
And we come back at night
and do a two-hour special
867
00:51:11,485 --> 00:51:13,737
that's got the whole history, almost,
of black music.
868
00:51:13,821 --> 00:51:15,614
- Wow.
- It's a hard job.
869
00:51:15,698 --> 00:51:19,285
But I mean, my whole life has
been like that, though. I like that.
870
00:51:24,123 --> 00:51:26,750
Look at that architecture. God damn, baby!
871
00:51:27,209 --> 00:51:31,630
["Sanford and Son Theme
(The Streetbeater)" by Quincy Jones plays]
872
00:51:34,967 --> 00:51:36,594
- [applause]
- Hey!
873
00:51:36,677 --> 00:51:37,928
[speaking in Georgian]
874
00:51:39,263 --> 00:51:44,101
I want you to give it up
for Alfredo Rodriguez. Alfredo!
875
00:51:54,612 --> 00:51:57,382
[Colbert] Is there a commonality
between these artists you worked with?
876
00:51:57,406 --> 00:51:59,533
Yes. Individuality,
877
00:51:59,617 --> 00:52:01,994
distinctive personalities,
878
00:52:02,411 --> 00:52:03,411
and sounds.
879
00:52:03,662 --> 00:52:06,165
Ray Charles, Count Basie, Clark Terry,
880
00:52:06,248 --> 00:52:08,459
they put me on their shoulders,
so it's an honor for me
881
00:52:08,542 --> 00:52:11,295
to put the young people on my shoulders.
It is an honor.
882
00:52:15,257 --> 00:52:17,134
How you doing, man? You doing okay?
883
00:52:20,304 --> 00:52:23,265
[inaudible]
884
00:52:27,895 --> 00:52:29,313
[loud cheering and applause]
885
00:52:39,365 --> 00:52:40,365
Welcome.
886
00:52:40,407 --> 00:52:41,408
Hur mar du.
887
00:52:41,492 --> 00:52:42,910
First time here in the office?
888
00:52:42,993 --> 00:52:44,161
- In the office, yeah.
- Yeah.
889
00:52:44,244 --> 00:52:45,954
- Sweden, 63 years.
- Yeah, I know it.
890
00:52:46,038 --> 00:52:47,038
Oh, man.
891
00:52:47,915 --> 00:52:49,625
You going to save the record business?
892
00:52:49,708 --> 00:52:52,628
- Hopefully, that's what we hope for.
- It needs some saving.
893
00:52:55,881 --> 00:52:58,967
- Justin Kauflin, come on. Give it up.
- [cheering]
894
00:53:05,140 --> 00:53:07,494
- It's good to see you.
- You guys are bad motherfuckers, man.
895
00:53:07,518 --> 00:53:10,270
- Oh, boy.
- You are the future, brother.
896
00:53:15,109 --> 00:53:20,155
That is the power of music,
to bring the people of the world together.
897
00:53:20,239 --> 00:53:21,573
[cheering]
898
00:53:31,458 --> 00:53:33,544
Look at these cars, man. Look at this.
899
00:53:34,128 --> 00:53:36,171
That's just Chicago in the '30s, man.
900
00:53:37,256 --> 00:53:38,507
[woman] Mr. Quincy Jones!
901
00:53:38,590 --> 00:53:40,426
[applause and cheering]
902
00:53:41,552 --> 00:53:45,055
I came up in that school of, like,
all kind, every kind of music.
903
00:53:45,139 --> 00:53:47,057
There's just two kinds, bad and good.
904
00:53:51,145 --> 00:53:55,899
I just got back from, uh, Hong Kong
and Abu Dhabi and Dubai,
905
00:53:55,983 --> 00:54:00,237
so I'm a little turned around here,
so bear along with me, okay?
906
00:54:01,739 --> 00:54:02,739
Uh...
907
00:54:03,907 --> 00:54:04,907
Tonight...
908
00:54:05,784 --> 00:54:07,077
is a powerful foray...
909
00:54:08,036 --> 00:54:09,580
into... Jesus!
910
00:54:11,915 --> 00:54:13,417
I'm falling down here.
911
00:54:14,376 --> 00:54:15,376
Glenn!
912
00:54:20,382 --> 00:54:21,383
Jesus Christ.
913
00:54:22,342 --> 00:54:23,342
Glenn!
914
00:54:23,385 --> 00:54:24,636
[audience murmuring]
915
00:54:25,262 --> 00:54:28,390
[dispatcher]
916
00:54:28,474 --> 00:54:31,310
[woman]
917
00:54:33,937 --> 00:54:35,355
[dispatcher]
918
00:54:35,439 --> 00:54:37,399
[woman]
919
00:54:37,483 --> 00:54:39,067
[dispatcher]
920
00:54:42,321 --> 00:54:43,822
[man] How's your pain right now?
921
00:54:43,947 --> 00:54:46,033
- I don't have any.
- [man] No pain? Good.
922
00:54:46,408 --> 00:54:47,826
Okay, very good. Okay.
923
00:54:50,454 --> 00:54:53,707
[Rashida] Dad, did they tell you that
there's any way to prevent blood clots?
924
00:54:53,791 --> 00:54:55,042
- Did they tell you?
- No.
925
00:54:55,125 --> 00:54:56,460
[Kidada] Exercise.
926
00:54:56,543 --> 00:54:58,938
- [Rashida] Exercise, compression socks.
- Yeah, not sedentary.
927
00:54:58,962 --> 00:55:00,255
- [Kidada] Yeah.
- Sedentary.
928
00:55:00,339 --> 00:55:01,548
- [Kidada] Yeah.
- What socks?
929
00:55:01,632 --> 00:55:04,301
- [Rashida] Compression socks.
- Yes, I know... about that.
930
00:55:05,803 --> 00:55:08,639
[Rashida] Did they say it was
from, yeah, traveling, Dad?
931
00:55:09,056 --> 00:55:11,517
Traveling is worse if you don't exercise.
932
00:55:13,101 --> 00:55:14,728
[Rashida] He's traveling too much.
933
00:55:18,816 --> 00:55:21,819
[Tapson] Can I listen to your lungs
real quick? Just take a second.
934
00:55:27,699 --> 00:55:29,910
You had kind of a close call, you know?
935
00:55:29,993 --> 00:55:32,329
If you've got a big clot like that
that sneaks up through,
936
00:55:32,412 --> 00:55:34,612
it's a clot this long,
I mean, that can be sudden death.
937
00:55:34,665 --> 00:55:35,665
Oh, man.
938
00:55:35,707 --> 00:55:36,875
You got any travel coming up?
939
00:55:36,959 --> 00:55:39,962
I was supposed to go to Washington,
I was supposed to go to Europe.
940
00:55:40,045 --> 00:55:41,463
You gotta be careful, I think,
941
00:55:41,547 --> 00:55:44,150
especially the first few weeks
after something like this, you know.
942
00:55:44,174 --> 00:55:45,759
I want to start exercising too.
943
00:55:46,134 --> 00:55:49,596
I honestly, I thought, 90 percent chance
you come out in a wheelchair.
944
00:55:49,680 --> 00:55:52,349
- Really? No way.
- I... That got me very excited.
945
00:55:52,432 --> 00:55:55,352
- I'm glad to hear that.
- I'm a responder and a survivor.
946
00:55:57,855 --> 00:56:00,023
["Body Heat" by Quincy Jones plays]
947
00:56:03,360 --> 00:56:05,946
♪ Can you feel it...? ♪
948
00:56:09,241 --> 00:56:11,243
[Quincy] After my marriage to Ulla
broke up,
949
00:56:11,326 --> 00:56:14,121
I was determined
not to hook up seriously with anyone.
950
00:56:18,500 --> 00:56:20,335
♪ My temperature's risin'... ♪
951
00:56:20,419 --> 00:56:23,297
I met Peggy Lipton in 1972.
952
00:56:25,007 --> 00:56:29,052
She was a beautiful star
of a hot TV series, The Mod Squad,
953
00:56:30,470 --> 00:56:32,723
the first young hip drama on TV.
954
00:56:33,932 --> 00:56:36,435
She was independent, smart,
955
00:56:36,518 --> 00:56:38,478
beautiful, and understanding.
956
00:56:38,562 --> 00:56:40,772
♪ Why can't I control my passion? ♪
957
00:56:41,273 --> 00:56:43,984
When we met,
the chemistry was so strong.
958
00:56:44,443 --> 00:56:46,570
I just was so drawn to him.
959
00:56:47,738 --> 00:56:49,323
He came into my life and that was it.
960
00:56:49,823 --> 00:56:50,824
It was like I knew.
961
00:56:53,452 --> 00:56:56,038
After we met, it was so instantaneous
that he just moved in.
962
00:56:56,121 --> 00:56:58,540
It was, like, two weeks later, he was in.
963
00:57:00,417 --> 00:57:03,462
[Quincy] Falling in love with Peggy
was like a breath of fresh air.
964
00:57:03,545 --> 00:57:05,881
♪ When we meet, ain't it sweet? ♪
965
00:57:06,506 --> 00:57:12,387
♪ And when we greet, feel that body heat ♪
966
00:57:14,139 --> 00:57:17,017
[Quincy] We said, "We'll do this
as long as we feel good."
967
00:57:18,310 --> 00:57:20,062
We never even talked of marriage.
968
00:57:21,021 --> 00:57:24,232
We didn't feel that a piece of paper
was necessary to keep us together.
969
00:57:24,316 --> 00:57:29,237
♪ Feel that body heat ♪
970
00:57:30,197 --> 00:57:31,531
♪ Body heat ♪
971
00:57:42,417 --> 00:57:46,088
All of her desires, her focus,
she gave to her family and to me,
972
00:57:46,171 --> 00:57:48,090
so that I could get on with my career.
973
00:57:48,674 --> 00:57:51,426
["Gula Matari" by Quincy Jones plays]
974
00:57:53,762 --> 00:57:55,722
He was working himself like crazy.
975
00:57:57,516 --> 00:58:01,311
He was so determined to take himself
out of only a jazz musician,
976
00:58:01,395 --> 00:58:03,981
to take himself
out of only a movie composer,
977
00:58:04,064 --> 00:58:05,774
and to go the next step with that.
978
00:58:07,150 --> 00:58:09,736
[Quincy] Duke Ellington said,
"I want you to be one of the people
979
00:58:09,820 --> 00:58:12,072
that help to de-categorize
American music."
980
00:58:12,447 --> 00:58:14,116
He passed the baton down.
981
00:58:18,537 --> 00:58:22,666
In order for music to grow,
the critics must stop categorizing
982
00:58:23,125 --> 00:58:25,127
and let the musicians get involved
983
00:58:25,210 --> 00:58:27,254
in all different facets of music.
984
00:58:27,337 --> 00:58:31,383
We will die if we get stuck
in one area of music.
985
00:58:41,143 --> 00:58:43,063
[announcer]
Tonight, the Academy Awards orchestra
986
00:58:43,145 --> 00:58:47,899
will be conducted by three-time
Oscar nominee Quincy Jones!
987
00:58:47,983 --> 00:58:50,152
[mid-tempo music plays]
988
00:59:14,009 --> 00:59:16,219
[music building to a crescendo]
989
00:59:17,554 --> 00:59:18,954
- [music peaking]
- [sudden silence]
990
00:59:20,557 --> 00:59:22,768
[Peggy] One day he just, um...
991
00:59:23,560 --> 00:59:24,560
collapsed.
992
00:59:27,147 --> 00:59:29,399
And I called 9-1-1 right away.
993
00:59:31,735 --> 00:59:35,113
When we took him to the hospital,
he... he wasn't conscious.
994
00:59:50,420 --> 00:59:54,758
And I was just, like,
how could one moment be so perfect
995
00:59:54,841 --> 00:59:57,469
and the next moment
your whole life is falling apart.
996
00:59:59,638 --> 01:00:02,599
[Quincy] It was like a cannon
had blasted through my head.
997
01:00:04,017 --> 01:00:07,437
What happens is the main vessel
to your brain... pops.
998
01:00:07,813 --> 01:00:09,898
They operated for seven and a half hours.
999
01:00:11,733 --> 01:00:15,529
At the end of the operation,
my neurosurgeons came in and said,
1000
01:00:15,612 --> 01:00:17,572
"The good news is you lived.
1001
01:00:17,948 --> 01:00:21,201
The bad news is
we found another one on the other side
1002
01:00:21,284 --> 01:00:23,495
that could be ready to explode
at any minute.
1003
01:00:24,037 --> 01:00:26,706
In two months,
we have to go back in again."
1004
01:00:28,416 --> 01:00:32,379
The first thing that you think about
are all the things that were, like,
1005
01:00:32,462 --> 01:00:34,464
things I'm going to get around to.
1006
01:00:35,841 --> 01:00:37,968
Like my daughter hadn't called me "Daddy".
1007
01:00:38,510 --> 01:00:40,345
And all of the things that I hadn't done,
1008
01:00:40,428 --> 01:00:43,473
all these crazy, wild things
in your imagination
1009
01:00:43,557 --> 01:00:45,183
that you hadn't even started on.
1010
01:00:47,644 --> 01:00:49,813
It's nature's way
of getting your attention.
1011
01:00:51,064 --> 01:00:55,152
You know, to make you live your life,
you know, really live it and... and...
1012
01:00:56,111 --> 01:00:58,905
dig down for the values
that really mean something.
1013
01:01:02,117 --> 01:01:04,369
[Peggy] With our baby Kidada
six months old,
1014
01:01:05,495 --> 01:01:08,123
and the other operation looming
a few weeks away,
1015
01:01:09,958 --> 01:01:11,209
we decided to marry.
1016
01:01:11,835 --> 01:01:14,337
["Somewhere" by Aretha Franklin plays]
1017
01:01:15,213 --> 01:01:18,425
♪ Somewhere ♪
1018
01:01:19,759 --> 01:01:22,345
♪ There is a place for us... ♪
1019
01:01:22,429 --> 01:01:25,849
[Quincy] You realize, uh...
the true essence of time.
1020
01:01:27,225 --> 01:01:30,520
And you tell your friends
you love them... now!
1021
01:01:32,147 --> 01:01:33,982
Not tomorrow or next week.
1022
01:01:34,900 --> 01:01:36,109
Let them feel your love.
1023
01:01:36,526 --> 01:01:38,737
♪ It waits for us ♪
1024
01:01:39,779 --> 01:01:43,325
♪ Somewhere ♪
1025
01:01:57,130 --> 01:01:59,341
[Quincy] I asked the doctor afterwards,
"What is that...
1026
01:01:59,424 --> 01:02:02,594
What was going on at that time?"
And he said, "You were dying, you know."
1027
01:02:04,012 --> 01:02:07,557
I had to try to rehabilitate, you know,
go through therapy to be able to write
1028
01:02:07,641 --> 01:02:11,186
because it's frightening to see, you know,
those big jagged edges,
1029
01:02:11,269 --> 01:02:12,729
when you're trying to write again.
1030
01:02:13,188 --> 01:02:14,481
And dropouts in...
1031
01:02:15,315 --> 01:02:16,315
memory.
1032
01:02:16,775 --> 01:02:18,215
So that's scary, that's frightening.
1033
01:02:18,276 --> 01:02:20,570
I mean, people real close to you,
it just disappears.
1034
01:02:22,030 --> 01:02:23,865
[woman] What's important to you now?
1035
01:02:25,033 --> 01:02:26,785
[Quincy] Uh, contributing something...
1036
01:02:27,410 --> 01:02:30,080
that you don't really get anything
in return for.
1037
01:02:37,837 --> 01:02:39,089
[Peggy] We were grateful.
1038
01:02:39,756 --> 01:02:41,633
We were grateful for a lot of things.
1039
01:02:42,259 --> 01:02:45,262
And, uh, people were just amazed
at his recovery.
1040
01:02:45,720 --> 01:02:47,264
And then we had another baby.
1041
01:02:53,520 --> 01:02:57,274
Happy anniversary to us.
Happy anniversary to us.
1042
01:02:57,357 --> 01:02:58,275
[laughing]
1043
01:02:58,358 --> 01:02:59,234
Isn't that wild?
1044
01:02:59,317 --> 01:03:02,279
["Fat Cat Strut"
by the Ray Brown Orchestra plays]
1045
01:03:02,362 --> 01:03:03,697
[Quincy] When you come back,
1046
01:03:04,281 --> 01:03:08,785
all of the dreams you have, you say,
"You'd better go for it, now," you know?
1047
01:03:08,868 --> 01:03:10,628
You can't put that off, you know.
It's not...
1048
01:03:10,662 --> 01:03:14,624
I'd rather say, uh, "I'm sorry I did,"
rather than "I wish I had," you know?
1049
01:03:18,795 --> 01:03:21,089
["The Best is Yet to Come"
by Frank Sinatra playing]
1050
01:03:21,172 --> 01:03:22,172
Gigi!
1051
01:03:22,507 --> 01:03:23,842
- Hi.
- How's my baby?
1052
01:03:23,925 --> 01:03:25,844
- Are you hungry?
- A little bit.
1053
01:03:25,927 --> 01:03:28,054
[Sinatra]
♪ You think you've seen the sun ♪
1054
01:03:28,138 --> 01:03:30,598
♪ But you ain't seen it shine... ♪
1055
01:03:30,682 --> 01:03:34,436
[singing along to the melody]
1056
01:03:34,519 --> 01:03:36,855
♪ Wait till the warm-up's under way ♪
1057
01:03:36,938 --> 01:03:38,189
So much fun, man.
1058
01:03:39,524 --> 01:03:40,608
What's this, love?
1059
01:03:40,859 --> 01:03:43,778
It's just something I found
going through one of the boxes.
1060
01:03:45,447 --> 01:03:46,573
Oh, my God.
1061
01:03:47,907 --> 01:03:48,907
Wow.
1062
01:03:49,117 --> 01:03:50,994
I haven't seen this in 50 years.
1063
01:03:51,619 --> 01:03:53,580
I got accurate records of everything.
1064
01:03:54,497 --> 01:03:57,834
How much I was getting...
Jesus Christ, look at all those!
1065
01:03:57,917 --> 01:04:00,128
Nineteen arrangements,
twenty dollars apiece.
1066
01:04:00,211 --> 01:04:01,296
Lord have mercy.
1067
01:04:01,379 --> 01:04:02,464
[both laugh]
1068
01:04:03,173 --> 01:04:04,973
- Twenty dollars apiece.
- What year was that?
1069
01:04:05,008 --> 01:04:08,303
Twelve dollars! God damn! 1952.
1070
01:04:08,386 --> 01:04:09,888
Twelve dollars an arrangement.
1071
01:04:10,472 --> 01:04:11,598
Jesus Christ.
1072
01:04:12,098 --> 01:04:14,601
But I was happy
'cause I wasn't starving to death.
1073
01:04:17,354 --> 01:04:18,354
What else you got?
1074
01:04:19,606 --> 01:04:20,606
Wow.
1075
01:04:22,025 --> 01:04:24,402
Boy, time is a bitch, man. Look at that.
1076
01:04:25,028 --> 01:04:27,781
- [Gloria] Is that you?
- [Quincy] That's my yearbook picture.
1077
01:04:29,949 --> 01:04:31,159
Look at that belly, man.
1078
01:04:31,242 --> 01:04:32,535
That's a big belly, man.
1079
01:04:33,286 --> 01:04:34,286
Wow.
1080
01:04:35,163 --> 01:04:36,498
It takes you back, honey.
1081
01:04:38,124 --> 01:04:39,167
Look at Daddy.
1082
01:04:40,168 --> 01:04:41,378
He was always happy.
1083
01:04:41,461 --> 01:04:42,962
Oh, he was a beautiful man.
1084
01:04:44,547 --> 01:04:45,547
Oh, my God.
1085
01:04:48,593 --> 01:04:50,011
- My mother.
- Yeah.
1086
01:04:50,929 --> 01:04:51,929
Oh, Sarah.
1087
01:04:53,681 --> 01:04:54,681
Wow.
1088
01:04:56,643 --> 01:04:57,643
Heavy.
1089
01:04:59,813 --> 01:05:00,939
What the hell is this?
1090
01:05:02,941 --> 01:05:04,567
"This is filled with lies."
1091
01:05:04,651 --> 01:05:05,651
Who said that?
1092
01:05:07,278 --> 01:05:09,197
[Gloria] I have no idea, what is that?
1093
01:05:10,740 --> 01:05:13,993
"Everybody spoke well of you
until you scandalized your mother."
1094
01:05:14,244 --> 01:05:16,162
This looks like your mother's writing.
1095
01:05:16,246 --> 01:05:17,414
- I know.
- Typewriter.
1096
01:05:17,497 --> 01:05:21,042
"That is what happens when you listen
to evil communications." That's her.
1097
01:05:21,751 --> 01:05:24,212
My mother, she was mad
when she read this article.
1098
01:05:25,672 --> 01:05:27,173
I never saw this stuff before.
1099
01:05:29,384 --> 01:05:31,845
"The cake is what made you
lose all of your teeth.
1100
01:05:32,262 --> 01:05:36,391
I insisted on good food. Even so, that's
when I tossed the cake in a garbage can."
1101
01:05:37,225 --> 01:05:38,225
Oh, God.
1102
01:05:40,728 --> 01:05:41,771
That's sad.
1103
01:06:02,000 --> 01:06:04,794
[Peggy] Quincy's mother, Sarah,
was there as a shadow.
1104
01:06:06,421 --> 01:06:07,964
As a shadow of...
1105
01:06:09,340 --> 01:06:10,592
who he could become.
1106
01:06:12,469 --> 01:06:16,806
He worried that maybe he had
that mental illness like her.
1107
01:06:18,516 --> 01:06:20,727
She would come back into our lives
through...
1108
01:06:21,352 --> 01:06:23,104
you know, wanting to see
the grandchildren.
1109
01:06:24,314 --> 01:06:28,276
Quincy just would go
into a full cold sweat around her.
1110
01:06:29,444 --> 01:06:32,864
She pushed his buttons in a way
that we could never understand.
1111
01:06:34,741 --> 01:06:38,745
[Quincy] Of the word mother, you know,
it doesn't mean too much to me.
1112
01:06:39,829 --> 01:06:41,539
I don't know what it is, you know.
1113
01:06:42,957 --> 01:06:45,001
I guess trauma gets frozen at the peak.
1114
01:06:46,419 --> 01:06:49,088
It was really seriously damaging.
1115
01:06:50,215 --> 01:06:54,093
I'm sure that affected my relationship
with a lot of women later, you know.
1116
01:06:54,177 --> 01:06:55,929
[inaudible]
1117
01:06:56,012 --> 01:07:00,934
They're feelings that I'm...
to this day, I'm still wrestling with.
1118
01:07:06,523 --> 01:07:08,233
[Quincy] Isn't it astounding, man,
1119
01:07:08,316 --> 01:07:12,946
when you look at the reality
of us having the same twelve notes
1120
01:07:13,029 --> 01:07:15,198
for 710 years.
1121
01:07:15,573 --> 01:07:16,866
- Everybody.
- Amazing, right?
1122
01:07:16,950 --> 01:07:19,786
Brahms, Beethoven, Basie,
Bo Diddley, Bird.
1123
01:07:20,119 --> 01:07:22,288
The same fucking 12 notes.
1124
01:07:23,039 --> 01:07:24,249
It's heavy, man. Isn't it?
1125
01:07:24,332 --> 01:07:26,334
- That's really heavy, right?
- It is heavy, man!
1126
01:07:26,417 --> 01:07:28,503
Seven hundred and ten years!
1127
01:07:28,962 --> 01:07:30,797
- That... that is quite amazing.
- Shit!
1128
01:07:30,880 --> 01:07:34,968
[tentatively playing a melody]
1129
01:07:38,388 --> 01:07:40,723
- Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
- And then something to do like this one.
1130
01:07:40,807 --> 01:07:45,478
[Alfredo singing the same tune]
1131
01:07:45,562 --> 01:07:47,272
Where's that B, where's that B?
1132
01:07:47,355 --> 01:07:49,941
[finishing the run]
1133
01:07:50,024 --> 01:07:51,401
Do it again, like this.
1134
01:07:53,236 --> 01:07:54,236
- Uh-huh.
- Like that?
1135
01:07:54,279 --> 01:07:56,281
[playing different chords]
1136
01:07:56,364 --> 01:08:00,493
[tapping out a lively rhythm]
1137
01:08:15,341 --> 01:08:19,220
[piano keys tinkling a tune]
1138
01:08:33,860 --> 01:08:37,238
We're still dealing
with the climactic part of the octaves.
1139
01:08:37,322 --> 01:08:40,325
- Those octaves, you can't follow 'em.
- [Richard] Mm-hmm.
1140
01:08:40,408 --> 01:08:43,578
I'm just saying, just let them have
a little bit at a time, you know?
1141
01:08:43,703 --> 01:08:44,996
Of course, yeah.
1142
01:08:45,246 --> 01:08:47,566
- What do you think?
- I think it's ready for the painting.
1143
01:08:47,624 --> 01:08:49,292
- Yeah?
- Ready for some paint.
1144
01:08:51,336 --> 01:08:55,173
Richard, the other stuff is very legato
and everything else,
1145
01:08:55,256 --> 01:08:58,635
so let's do the contrast and keep it
so it's a little bit more percussive.
1146
01:08:58,718 --> 01:08:59,552
Okay.
1147
01:08:59,636 --> 01:09:03,473
[Bona singing in a Cameroonian language]
1148
01:09:04,807 --> 01:09:05,807
[Quincy] Yeah!
1149
01:09:10,146 --> 01:09:11,146
Yeah.
1150
01:09:16,319 --> 01:09:17,487
- Yes!
- [Alfredo] Whoo!
1151
01:09:17,570 --> 01:09:18,780
I think that he's great.
1152
01:09:19,238 --> 01:09:20,156
He's great, man.
1153
01:09:20,239 --> 01:09:21,658
[laughter]
1154
01:09:23,117 --> 01:09:24,827
- It was a good day, man.
- [Alfredo] Yeah.
1155
01:09:24,911 --> 01:09:25,911
Good day.
1156
01:09:31,376 --> 01:09:33,586
- [man] No bass?
- [Quincy] We'll do the bass separate.
1157
01:09:33,670 --> 01:09:34,796
- Okay.
- Do the guitar first
1158
01:09:34,879 --> 01:09:36,339
so we can make a decision about it.
1159
01:09:37,173 --> 01:09:39,676
[man] "Light Up The Night", take two!
1160
01:09:40,051 --> 01:09:42,387
[funky rhythm guitar and drums]
1161
01:09:48,142 --> 01:09:52,939
[Quincy] My feeling is always leave
at least 20 or 30 percent of room
1162
01:09:53,022 --> 01:09:54,941
for the Lord to walk through the room.
1163
01:09:57,318 --> 01:09:59,737
Because, you know,
then you're leaving room for the magic
1164
01:09:59,821 --> 01:10:02,073
and, uh, records are about
1165
01:10:02,156 --> 01:10:04,742
capturing magic,
real magical moments, you know,
1166
01:10:04,826 --> 01:10:06,911
at that time, and capturing them on tape,
you know.
1167
01:10:06,994 --> 01:10:09,997
I think that's what communicates,
is the magic of the moment.
1168
01:10:15,336 --> 01:10:19,132
And... love is the other word, too.
When the love is in the studio,
1169
01:10:19,215 --> 01:10:22,055
because that contributes more to magic
in the studio than anything else.
1170
01:10:26,013 --> 01:10:30,101
[fully-produced version
of "Light Up The Night" playing]
1171
01:10:30,601 --> 01:10:33,187
I guess this is the most exciting period
of my life.
1172
01:10:46,409 --> 01:10:49,704
[man] You don't in any way
find it exhausting creatively?
1173
01:10:49,787 --> 01:10:52,373
[Quincy] It's the best thing for me
because it gives me a chance
1174
01:10:52,457 --> 01:10:53,457
to get everything out
1175
01:10:53,499 --> 01:10:57,795
and, uh, get involved with the whole
eclectic world which I love,
1176
01:10:57,879 --> 01:10:59,338
which is black music, period.
1177
01:10:59,422 --> 01:11:03,926
And also film scoring
just taps the right parts of me
1178
01:11:04,010 --> 01:11:05,595
and makes me feel at ease.
1179
01:11:06,012 --> 01:11:09,182
♪ Here is the lively invitation ♪
1180
01:11:09,557 --> 01:11:12,894
[Peggy] I think with The Wiz,
it was the next challenge for Quincy.
1181
01:11:13,644 --> 01:11:16,063
And, of course, he put 110 percent in.
1182
01:11:17,190 --> 01:11:18,775
♪ And light the night ♪
1183
01:11:18,858 --> 01:11:20,943
♪ Come on, girl, we got to glow ♪
1184
01:11:21,027 --> 01:11:23,738
[Peggy] Our whole family moved to New York
to be with him,
1185
01:11:23,821 --> 01:11:26,365
and I took his two other children with me,
1186
01:11:26,449 --> 01:11:29,285
and it was very difficult
'cause he was away every night.
1187
01:11:29,744 --> 01:11:31,662
[man] Okay, we're back
with Michael Jackson,
1188
01:11:31,746 --> 01:11:34,582
and you just coming off The Wiz.
1189
01:11:34,665 --> 01:11:37,460
It was terrific.
It's something I always wanted to do,
1190
01:11:37,543 --> 01:11:40,630
and, uh, it was a lot of fun
working with all the greats...
1191
01:11:40,713 --> 01:11:42,590
Sidney Lumet, Quincy Jones...
1192
01:11:43,633 --> 01:11:45,218
[Quincy] When we were doing The Wiz,
1193
01:11:45,301 --> 01:11:47,720
he asked me about,
could I find him a producer?
1194
01:11:47,804 --> 01:11:52,433
At the time, we were heavily into the film
and so I didn't pay much attention.
1195
01:11:52,517 --> 01:11:55,728
Hey fellas, is today the day
you're gonna help me get down from here?
1196
01:11:56,354 --> 01:11:58,064
[Quincy] What I saw is discipline.
1197
01:11:58,439 --> 01:12:00,119
He showed up
at five o'clock in the morning
1198
01:12:00,149 --> 01:12:02,527
for a four-hour makeup job,
and then he stood around.
1199
01:12:02,610 --> 01:12:05,071
He knew everybody's songs,
all of their lines,
1200
01:12:05,154 --> 01:12:08,783
lyrics, dance steps, everything!
He just absorbed everything.
1201
01:12:09,367 --> 01:12:11,452
And I started to see a maturity in him.
1202
01:12:11,536 --> 01:12:14,539
And at that moment, I said,
"You've got a producer, man.
1203
01:12:14,622 --> 01:12:16,207
I'd like to take a shot at it."
1204
01:12:16,833 --> 01:12:17,667
[inaudible]
1205
01:12:17,750 --> 01:12:19,961
I felt he had the potential
to go way beyond
1206
01:12:20,044 --> 01:12:24,590
the wonderful trademark bubblegum
he'd done on Motown with the Jackson 5.
1207
01:12:26,926 --> 01:12:31,097
When he was ready to record,
I got my "Killer Q" posse together.
1208
01:12:32,139 --> 01:12:33,766
Rod "Worms" Temperton,
1209
01:12:33,850 --> 01:12:36,227
one of the greatest songwriters
who ever lived.
1210
01:12:36,686 --> 01:12:38,563
Bruce "Svensk" Swedien,
1211
01:12:38,646 --> 01:12:40,398
Greg "Mouse" Phillinganes,
1212
01:12:40,481 --> 01:12:42,608
Louis "Thunder Thumbs" Johnson,
1213
01:12:42,692 --> 01:12:44,485
John "J.R." Robinson,
1214
01:12:44,569 --> 01:12:46,279
Paulhino Da Costa,
1215
01:12:46,362 --> 01:12:47,864
Jerry Hay,
1216
01:12:47,947 --> 01:12:49,448
and many, many others.
1217
01:12:50,116 --> 01:12:51,659
We attacked that record.
1218
01:12:51,742 --> 01:12:55,329
[intro to "Rock With You"
by Michael Jackson plays]
1219
01:13:00,251 --> 01:13:02,795
We tried all kinds of things
I'd learned over the years
1220
01:13:02,879 --> 01:13:04,881
to help him with his artistic growth.
1221
01:13:05,756 --> 01:13:08,009
Things like dropping keys
just a minor third
1222
01:13:08,092 --> 01:13:10,887
to give him more flexibility
and a more mature range.
1223
01:13:12,179 --> 01:13:15,433
He was so shy, sometimes he'd sit down
and sing behind the couch
1224
01:13:15,516 --> 01:13:16,767
with his back to me.
1225
01:13:17,727 --> 01:13:21,522
Quincy saw that spark in Michael
that would make him a star.
1226
01:13:22,565 --> 01:13:23,858
He definitely saw
1227
01:13:23,941 --> 01:13:27,403
that there was something in Michael
that was needed in the world.
1228
01:13:28,404 --> 01:13:30,004
[Quincy] You have to get something that,
1229
01:13:30,072 --> 01:13:31,782
when we look at the end of a day,
1230
01:13:31,866 --> 01:13:34,869
and I have goosebumps,
and Michael has goosebumps,
1231
01:13:35,244 --> 01:13:36,954
then I think we've got something special,
1232
01:13:37,038 --> 01:13:40,291
'cause we're all very hard to please
and not satisfied too easily.
1233
01:13:41,542 --> 01:13:43,586
[Quincy] The resulting record,
Off the Wall,
1234
01:13:43,669 --> 01:13:46,672
was the biggest-selling black record
in history at that time.
1235
01:13:47,590 --> 01:13:50,593
[woman] Quincy Jones is hard
to put in a musical category.
1236
01:13:50,676 --> 01:13:51,844
His most recent production
1237
01:13:51,928 --> 01:13:54,555
of Michael Jackson's hit album
Off The Wall
1238
01:13:54,639 --> 01:13:56,098
was a smash success.
1239
01:13:56,182 --> 01:13:59,226
It sold over eight million copies
and got award upon award.
1240
01:13:59,894 --> 01:14:01,479
Off The Wall, Michael Jackson.
1241
01:14:01,562 --> 01:14:02,647
Michael Jackson.
1242
01:14:02,730 --> 01:14:04,023
Michael Jackson.
1243
01:14:05,733 --> 01:14:06,817
Thank you, Quincy Jones.
1244
01:14:06,901 --> 01:14:09,570
Thank you, my mother and father
and all the beautiful fans
1245
01:14:09,654 --> 01:14:12,365
who bought, you know, the record,
and, uh...
1246
01:14:12,949 --> 01:14:16,410
God, I really appreciate it. I love it.
Thank you very much.
1247
01:14:16,911 --> 01:14:18,996
[Peggy] Well, Quincy
really had to nurture Michael,
1248
01:14:19,080 --> 01:14:22,667
and part of their relationship
was that of a mentor and his protégé.
1249
01:14:23,459 --> 01:14:27,088
But I think Quincy was also
a father figure to him.
1250
01:14:33,469 --> 01:14:36,681
["P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)"
playing in the distance]
1251
01:14:38,057 --> 01:14:40,059
[music growing louder]
1252
01:14:42,478 --> 01:14:43,478
♪ P.Y.T. ♪
1253
01:14:46,148 --> 01:14:47,148
♪ T.L.C. ♪
1254
01:14:55,574 --> 01:14:56,574
♪ P.Y.T. ♪
1255
01:14:59,328 --> 01:15:00,328
♪ T.L.C. ♪
1256
01:15:08,587 --> 01:15:09,630
♪ P.Y.T. ♪
1257
01:15:11,048 --> 01:15:12,048
In the pocket!
1258
01:15:12,383 --> 01:15:13,383
♪ T.L.C. ♪
1259
01:15:21,809 --> 01:15:22,809
♪ P.Y.T. ♪
1260
01:15:25,479 --> 01:15:26,479
♪ T.L.C... ♪
1261
01:15:28,232 --> 01:15:32,611
[inaudible]
1262
01:15:33,320 --> 01:15:35,840
[Quincy] The making of Thriller
in a little more than two months
1263
01:15:35,865 --> 01:15:37,283
was like riding a rocket.
1264
01:15:37,366 --> 01:15:39,702
Everything about it
was done at hyperspeed.
1265
01:15:40,786 --> 01:15:44,206
Rod Temperton, who also co-wrote
several of the album's songs, and I
1266
01:15:44,290 --> 01:15:48,377
listened to nearly 600 songs
before picking out a dozen we liked.
1267
01:15:49,503 --> 01:15:51,964
We all worked ourselves
into a near frenzy.
1268
01:15:52,840 --> 01:15:54,133
I called Michael "Smelly"
1269
01:15:54,216 --> 01:15:57,053
because when he liked a piece of music
or a certain beat,
1270
01:15:57,136 --> 01:16:00,264
instead of calling it funky,
he'd call it "smelly jelly".
1271
01:16:01,140 --> 01:16:02,659
- [Quincy] Incredible!
- [Michael] Yeah?
1272
01:16:02,683 --> 01:16:05,144
- [voices] Yeah!
- [Quincy] One more, son, one more.
1273
01:16:05,603 --> 01:16:07,188
[man] Cut! Once more, right away.
1274
01:16:07,271 --> 01:16:08,898
- [man] Here we go!
- [man] Right away.
1275
01:16:08,981 --> 01:16:10,566
And re-cue. Let's go, right away.
1276
01:16:11,400 --> 01:16:13,402
[man] Okay, here we go, ready, and...
1277
01:16:14,028 --> 01:16:18,449
We're working on a... a movie short,
which is like ten minutes,
1278
01:16:18,532 --> 01:16:21,994
for the Thriller album,
the song "Thriller",
1279
01:16:22,787 --> 01:16:25,122
and it's really exciting, what happens.
1280
01:16:25,206 --> 01:16:28,250
Michael, I think this is gonna be
the Citizen Kane of the videos.
1281
01:16:28,334 --> 01:16:29,168
I really do.
1282
01:16:29,251 --> 01:16:33,297
It's going to be the most revolutionary
thing in the history of videos, you know.
1283
01:16:34,340 --> 01:16:38,219
[Quincy] The single "Thriller" was
the first 14-minute music video ever made
1284
01:16:38,302 --> 01:16:41,722
and was treated like the premiere
of a feature film around the world.
1285
01:16:42,264 --> 01:16:45,601
[intro to "Thriller"
by Michael Jackson plays]
1286
01:16:47,228 --> 01:16:50,815
Michael was splashed all over the globe
visually as well as musically.
1287
01:16:51,273 --> 01:16:56,028
Michael, the MTV videos, and the music,
all rode each other to glory.
1288
01:16:56,612 --> 01:16:58,812
"Dear Quincy, we are all part
of history in the making."
1289
01:16:58,864 --> 01:16:59,782
[applause]
1290
01:16:59,865 --> 01:17:00,865
All right.
1291
01:17:01,951 --> 01:17:03,327
[laughing]
1292
01:17:04,620 --> 01:17:08,916
[Peggy] I don't think anyone would have
known how far it was gonna go.
1293
01:17:09,333 --> 01:17:11,627
[fans screaming]
1294
01:17:13,337 --> 01:17:15,756
[man] Several people in the crowd
of 5,000 fainted.
1295
01:17:15,840 --> 01:17:17,466
Police struggled to maintain order.
1296
01:17:17,550 --> 01:17:20,928
One fan said, "I thought I was
going to get killed, but it was worth it."
1297
01:17:21,011 --> 01:17:22,972
["Thriller" by Michael Jackson plays]
1298
01:17:30,437 --> 01:17:32,189
[fans screaming]
1299
01:17:38,779 --> 01:17:40,614
[shouting]
1300
01:17:40,698 --> 01:17:42,700
[screaming]
1301
01:17:44,869 --> 01:17:47,997
Michael! [screams]
1302
01:17:50,249 --> 01:17:53,502
And producer of the year is...
Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson!
1303
01:17:53,586 --> 01:17:54,586
Yes!
1304
01:17:58,299 --> 01:18:00,801
We'd like to thank the people
that make this work.
1305
01:18:01,343 --> 01:18:02,343
My wife...
1306
01:18:02,887 --> 01:18:07,141
who chose to take care of me
rather than pursue her own career...
1307
01:18:07,725 --> 01:18:09,310
and our family, and I love her.
1308
01:18:10,436 --> 01:18:12,605
- And Michael Jackson...
- [cheering]
1309
01:18:12,688 --> 01:18:15,107
I think one of the greatest entertainers
of the 20th century.
1310
01:18:15,191 --> 01:18:16,692
I mean that from all my heart.
1311
01:18:16,775 --> 01:18:18,986
[cheers and applause]
1312
01:18:32,458 --> 01:18:33,876
[inaudible]
1313
01:18:38,714 --> 01:18:40,633
[Quincy] Beautiful, beautiful.
1314
01:18:41,508 --> 01:18:43,677
Great... great bass sound
on the synths, man.
1315
01:18:44,053 --> 01:18:44,970
Love it.
1316
01:18:45,054 --> 01:18:46,388
One of my favorite sounds.
1317
01:18:46,472 --> 01:18:49,558
[impersonating a bass rhythm]
1318
01:18:49,642 --> 01:18:51,936
[woman] One, two, three.
1319
01:18:53,520 --> 01:18:54,813
If I don't see you before,
1320
01:18:54,897 --> 01:18:56,208
- have a great holidays.
- You too.
1321
01:18:56,232 --> 01:18:59,068
- I'll send you some shots, love you.
- I love you back.
1322
01:19:01,403 --> 01:19:02,988
Hmm. Quite a history!
1323
01:19:11,330 --> 01:19:13,332
- [Laju] Hi!
- [Quincy] How are you, sweetheart?
1324
01:19:13,415 --> 01:19:16,168
- Oh, good to see you, you look great.
- [Quincy] You too, honey.
1325
01:19:16,252 --> 01:19:17,962
You've been doing other exercise, too?
1326
01:19:18,045 --> 01:19:19,880
No, I haven't done exercise
in six months.
1327
01:19:19,964 --> 01:19:20,798
Oh, wow.
1328
01:19:20,881 --> 01:19:22,925
So we gotta find a way
to ease back, you know.
1329
01:19:23,008 --> 01:19:24,718
- Okay, yeah.
- Take me slowly there.
1330
01:19:24,802 --> 01:19:25,802
Definitely.
1331
01:19:26,136 --> 01:19:27,429
It's been a long time.
1332
01:19:30,641 --> 01:19:31,641
There you go.
1333
01:19:35,229 --> 01:19:37,398
- Good, that's good.
- [grunts]
1334
01:19:37,481 --> 01:19:39,066
- Perfect.
- Can't even budge.
1335
01:19:39,149 --> 01:19:43,028
[exhaling short sharp breaths]
1336
01:19:43,821 --> 01:19:47,157
- Good. Turn... Be completely relaxed.
- This is hard, man, Jesus Christ.
1337
01:19:47,241 --> 01:19:48,241
Take a break.
1338
01:19:50,369 --> 01:19:51,578
[exhaling deeply]
1339
01:19:51,662 --> 01:19:53,789
- The body's not used to it, right?
- Yeah.
1340
01:19:54,456 --> 01:19:55,456
Yep.
1341
01:19:56,417 --> 01:19:58,502
It's the way to get back like that again.
1342
01:20:02,840 --> 01:20:05,175
[exhaling deeply]
1343
01:20:23,819 --> 01:20:27,573
I'm gonna give you a list right now
of people that I'd like to just get,
1344
01:20:27,656 --> 01:20:30,743
and as fast as you get them on the phone,
I have to speak with each one.
1345
01:20:30,826 --> 01:20:31,660
No problem.
1346
01:20:31,744 --> 01:20:33,370
- Sidney Poitier.
- Mm-hmm.
1347
01:20:33,454 --> 01:20:34,830
Stevie Wonder. Michael.
1348
01:20:35,873 --> 01:20:38,667
- M.J.
- Streisand. Spielberg's office.
1349
01:20:38,751 --> 01:20:41,128
- And I'd like to talk to Alex Haley.
- Mm-hmm.
1350
01:20:41,211 --> 01:20:42,379
And Brando.
1351
01:20:42,463 --> 01:20:46,175
[intro to "Give Me The Night"
by George Benson plays]
1352
01:20:47,343 --> 01:20:49,636
[woman] The new star
on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1353
01:20:49,720 --> 01:20:53,057
This one honors composer, arranger,
and jazz musician Quincy Jones.
1354
01:20:53,140 --> 01:20:55,225
- How did all these people get here?
- [laughter]
1355
01:20:55,309 --> 01:20:57,978
[woman] Jones was there today
with his wife, actress Peggy Lipton,
1356
01:20:58,062 --> 01:20:59,772
who was, of course, in The Mod Squad.
1357
01:20:59,897 --> 01:21:01,940
Jones headed the list
with eight nominations
1358
01:21:02,024 --> 01:21:04,860
including best album of the year
for The Dude.
1359
01:21:05,486 --> 01:21:09,823
You get inspired by so many things
and you never stop, you never stop.
1360
01:21:09,907 --> 01:21:12,347
You think you can get it all in
and that's the dangerous part.
1361
01:21:13,327 --> 01:21:16,622
[Peggy] There was so much demand on him,
in every way.
1362
01:21:17,623 --> 01:21:20,876
Host this, be that, you know,
show up here, do that.
1363
01:21:22,419 --> 01:21:26,048
I began to find those things
really wearing on us.
1364
01:21:27,049 --> 01:21:29,176
It didn't feel like the old days anymore.
1365
01:21:29,760 --> 01:21:31,887
It felt like things had changed so much.
1366
01:21:32,012 --> 01:21:34,973
[woman] A group of legendary performers
recorded "We Are the World".
1367
01:21:35,057 --> 01:21:36,850
That's good, let's put it on the tape!
1368
01:21:36,934 --> 01:21:41,146
[woman] They've generated millions
of dollars to help fight famine in Africa.
1369
01:21:41,230 --> 01:21:44,691
"The world's number one music man."
One would think that's enough.
1370
01:21:44,775 --> 01:21:47,903
What, uh, made you decide
to go and produce a film?
1371
01:21:47,986 --> 01:21:51,448
Well, it's been a little secret dream
for years, right?
1372
01:21:53,325 --> 01:21:57,704
And it also encompassed
a beautiful era of black music
1373
01:21:57,788 --> 01:22:00,666
that was woven and integrated
right into the story.
1374
01:22:00,749 --> 01:22:04,086
["Miss Celie's Blues"
from The Color Purple plays]
1375
01:22:06,672 --> 01:22:09,758
At first I resisted, you know,
for all the obvious reasons.
1376
01:22:10,968 --> 01:22:13,262
And Quincy was saying,
"You know, this is not about race.
1377
01:22:13,345 --> 01:22:14,471
This is about humanity."
1378
01:22:14,555 --> 01:22:18,058
And he said, "You know, you didn't
have to go to Mars to make E.T."
1379
01:22:18,142 --> 01:22:19,893
And that made a lot of sense to me.
1380
01:22:21,562 --> 01:22:25,149
♪ I bet ya think I don't know nothing... ♪
1381
01:22:25,232 --> 01:22:27,693
You all know the story, right?
Quincy Jones discovered me.
1382
01:22:27,776 --> 01:22:30,779
And he was in Chicago, turned...
Tell 'em the story, Quincy.
1383
01:22:30,863 --> 01:22:32,783
[Quincy] We were trying to cast
The Color Purple.
1384
01:22:32,865 --> 01:22:34,116
I came in on a red-eye
1385
01:22:34,199 --> 01:22:36,493
and couldn't sleep
and walked around in the hotel
1386
01:22:36,577 --> 01:22:38,245
and turned on the television set,
1387
01:22:38,620 --> 01:22:41,331
and here comes Miss Winfrey,
1388
01:22:41,415 --> 01:22:43,250
real, honest, and true,
1389
01:22:43,333 --> 01:22:45,461
and it's all over. My baby.
1390
01:22:45,544 --> 01:22:47,713
- And I was discovered!
- My baby.
1391
01:22:47,796 --> 01:22:49,173
- [applause]
- [Oprah giggles]
1392
01:22:53,510 --> 01:22:55,971
[Quincy] After principal photography
had been completed,
1393
01:22:56,430 --> 01:22:57,431
I almost forgot
1394
01:22:57,514 --> 01:23:00,392
I still had to create a score
in less than two months.
1395
01:23:00,476 --> 01:23:02,478
- [Oprah] Were you overwhelmed?
- Oh, yes.
1396
01:23:02,561 --> 01:23:04,563
And I just panicked, you know?
1397
01:23:04,646 --> 01:23:07,107
We already got a drum machine on, man.
We got a drum machine.
1398
01:23:07,191 --> 01:23:08,831
We don't need to worry about that, do we?
1399
01:23:10,944 --> 01:23:14,490
["Corinne and Olivia"
from The Color Purple plays]
1400
01:23:20,621 --> 01:23:22,915
[Quincy] I know it's a sickness,
in a way.
1401
01:23:23,457 --> 01:23:26,668
You can call it "workaholic"
or whatever it is, but it's, uh...
1402
01:23:27,127 --> 01:23:28,378
it's the only way I know.
1403
01:23:31,256 --> 01:23:32,424
[Peggy] He'd become...
1404
01:23:32,883 --> 01:23:35,511
a person
that people just wanted a part of,
1405
01:23:35,594 --> 01:23:38,347
and he began to give away, I thought...
1406
01:23:39,139 --> 01:23:40,641
pieces of himself.
1407
01:23:41,016 --> 01:23:44,269
And by the time The Color Purple was over,
there was nothing left.
1408
01:23:44,645 --> 01:23:46,688
He wasn't even of this world.
1409
01:23:48,148 --> 01:23:50,859
How are you feeling now?
I mean, are you, like, zombied out?
1410
01:23:50,943 --> 01:23:53,862
I'm fried, yes, really. It's...
I've been running around,
1411
01:23:53,946 --> 01:23:57,074
and... and I'm just physically
and mentally exhausted, you know?
1412
01:23:57,157 --> 01:23:59,010
- From writing all that music?
- Just everything.
1413
01:23:59,034 --> 01:24:01,787
It's just the most music
I've ever seen in my life, and it's...
1414
01:24:01,870 --> 01:24:03,622
The brain is just tired, you know.
1415
01:24:03,705 --> 01:24:07,000
It's two years, you know.
Just like... I've been running.
1416
01:24:07,626 --> 01:24:11,964
[Peggy] Our relationship was starting to,
you know, look sort of, uh, bleak.
1417
01:24:13,048 --> 01:24:15,092
And a lot of it came from my insecurity,
1418
01:24:15,175 --> 01:24:17,386
not having him around
as much as I wanted to.
1419
01:24:19,805 --> 01:24:21,682
That movie took him away.
1420
01:24:23,934 --> 01:24:26,228
He wanted to fix things,
but there was nothing to fix.
1421
01:24:26,311 --> 01:24:29,481
I wasn't that whole... person
that I needed to be.
1422
01:24:29,565 --> 01:24:31,525
[sighing] So...
1423
01:24:32,276 --> 01:24:33,276
we broke up.
1424
01:24:35,028 --> 01:24:36,196
It was over like that.
1425
01:24:41,535 --> 01:24:44,079
[Quincy] Losing my marriage to Peggy
after 14 years
1426
01:24:44,162 --> 01:24:46,206
was like having my arteries ripped out.
1427
01:24:47,541 --> 01:24:50,752
I lost the woman I thought I'd live with
for the rest of my life.
1428
01:24:52,838 --> 01:24:55,048
I'd known then
that I was losing my mind...
1429
01:24:56,425 --> 01:24:58,552
that I was having a nervous breakdown.
1430
01:25:00,554 --> 01:25:01,722
I went back...
1431
01:25:01,805 --> 01:25:03,890
inside, deep into myself,
1432
01:25:03,974 --> 01:25:08,562
to reassess my essence as a human being.
1433
01:25:11,231 --> 01:25:14,067
'Cause I don't want to recreate
any of the old patterns again.
1434
01:25:16,361 --> 01:25:19,698
I realized that, from the time
I was a little boy, to that moment,
1435
01:25:20,240 --> 01:25:21,617
I was always running...
1436
01:25:22,951 --> 01:25:25,704
always trying to fill up
that black hole in my soul.
1437
01:25:27,080 --> 01:25:29,833
I ran because there was nothing behind me
to hold me up.
1438
01:25:30,709 --> 01:25:33,879
I ran because I thought that
that was all there was to do.
1439
01:25:35,047 --> 01:25:38,216
I thought that to stay in one place
meant to die.
1440
01:25:40,427 --> 01:25:42,596
All I could think about was my kids...
1441
01:25:43,847 --> 01:25:46,850
how my success had been
at their expense in so many ways.
1442
01:25:49,394 --> 01:25:51,355
Sometimes it's hard, at first,
to talk to him.
1443
01:25:51,438 --> 01:25:53,190
- [Rashida] Uh-huh.
- But then, once...
1444
01:25:53,273 --> 01:25:56,360
once I say what I want to say, he's fine.
1445
01:25:57,277 --> 01:26:01,448
Like, I couldn't really talk to him
for a while 'cause I never see him.
1446
01:26:01,531 --> 01:26:02,531
[Martina] Yeah.
1447
01:26:04,910 --> 01:26:08,997
[Quincy] It took two or three years
to get everything really in focus,
1448
01:26:09,790 --> 01:26:14,044
to reassess
how I want to spend the rest of my life.
1449
01:26:20,217 --> 01:26:22,969
["Oh, Happy Day" by Quincy Jones plays]
1450
01:26:35,273 --> 01:26:36,900
[inaudible]
1451
01:26:44,825 --> 01:26:46,827
[chattering voices]
1452
01:26:50,288 --> 01:26:53,250
[man] Ladies and gentlemen,
the hardest-working man in showbusiness.
1453
01:26:53,333 --> 01:26:54,418
[laughter]
1454
01:26:55,711 --> 01:26:58,213
[woman] Okay... Okay, did you get it?
1455
01:26:58,588 --> 01:27:00,257
[girl] Daddy! Daddy!
1456
01:27:01,591 --> 01:27:04,845
- [shouts of encouragement]
- [laughter]
1457
01:27:07,264 --> 01:27:08,432
[girl screams]
1458
01:27:08,515 --> 01:27:10,350
[girl] No! Oh, God...
1459
01:27:11,226 --> 01:27:13,729
[hysterical laughter]
1460
01:27:14,855 --> 01:27:15,855
[inaudible]
1461
01:27:15,897 --> 01:27:19,735
I thought about my kids because, while
I was doing all this stuff, you know...
1462
01:27:19,818 --> 01:27:21,528
uh, it was taking the time from them.
1463
01:27:21,611 --> 01:27:23,530
And that's what I kept thinking about,
you know.
1464
01:27:23,613 --> 01:27:26,950
And that's my pride and joy,
my children, I'm telling you.
1465
01:27:27,033 --> 01:27:28,201
And I'm making up for it now.
1466
01:27:28,660 --> 01:27:31,580
This is my one and only number one son.
1467
01:27:31,663 --> 01:27:33,790
He loves lots of hip hop
1468
01:27:33,874 --> 01:27:36,960
and introduced me to a lot of things
that I didn't understand about it.
1469
01:27:45,927 --> 01:27:47,304
And again, yep.
1470
01:27:48,430 --> 01:27:51,141
That's good.
And look over there.
1471
01:27:51,224 --> 01:27:52,224
That's great.
1472
01:27:53,810 --> 01:27:55,353
This shit kinda big, huh?
1473
01:27:57,564 --> 01:27:59,065
It's Quincy Jones, boy.
1474
01:28:00,025 --> 01:28:01,276
Don't talk to me no more.
1475
01:28:03,653 --> 01:28:04,988
Want to make a bad face?
1476
01:28:08,116 --> 01:28:11,495
My generation was introduced to Quincy
when Thriller...
1477
01:28:13,330 --> 01:28:14,873
You know, that's where...
1478
01:28:17,125 --> 01:28:19,127
kids my age can identify him with.
1479
01:28:19,669 --> 01:28:21,630
- Where you from, man?
- I'm from Compton.
1480
01:28:22,297 --> 01:28:24,674
South Side of Chicago, that was my home.
1481
01:28:24,758 --> 01:28:26,843
- Yeah, it's tough. My family's from there.
- Huh?
1482
01:28:26,927 --> 01:28:28,780
- My whole family's from there.
- That's amazing.
1483
01:28:28,804 --> 01:28:31,699
But it's the same. You know, the hood
is the same everywhere in the world.
1484
01:28:31,723 --> 01:28:33,683
- Yeah.
- Then I found a piano, man,
1485
01:28:33,767 --> 01:28:35,393
- and that changed my life.
- Yeah.
1486
01:28:37,145 --> 01:28:39,185
I would have been dead or in prison
a long time ago.
1487
01:28:39,231 --> 01:28:41,191
- Right.
- Chicago, Jesus...
1488
01:28:41,858 --> 01:28:42,734
In the '30s?
1489
01:28:42,818 --> 01:28:44,378
- Them motherfuckers don't play.
- Yeah.
1490
01:28:44,820 --> 01:28:48,240
It's funny, because I was inspired
by Back on the Block without even knowing.
1491
01:28:48,323 --> 01:28:53,453
Combining hip hop and jazz,
and you was the first to do it.
1492
01:28:53,537 --> 01:28:55,455
- Do you know where rap came from?
- Uhn-uhn.
1493
01:28:55,539 --> 01:28:57,833
Where? Where do you think
it came from, the Bronx?
1494
01:28:57,916 --> 01:29:00,335
- My generation, we're gonna say the Bronx.
- Shit.
1495
01:29:00,669 --> 01:29:02,462
- The Bronx.
- It came from Africa.
1496
01:29:02,546 --> 01:29:03,880
The praise-shouters in Africa.
1497
01:29:04,923 --> 01:29:06,550
- That's a trip, man.
- It is.
1498
01:29:06,633 --> 01:29:08,468
That's where all the rhythms came from.
Huh?
1499
01:29:08,552 --> 01:29:10,387
- To know where it really originates.
- Yeah.
1500
01:29:10,470 --> 01:29:12,430
- Where the rhythms came from.
- Vibrations, yeah.
1501
01:29:12,472 --> 01:29:15,892
When I was in the hospital,
I was looking back on 70 years, man.
1502
01:29:15,976 --> 01:29:17,536
- It's been a motherfucker, man.
- Yeah.
1503
01:29:17,602 --> 01:29:20,564
Unbelievable.
Each decade is different, you know?
1504
01:29:20,647 --> 01:29:21,982
- Each decade.
- Different music.
1505
01:29:22,065 --> 01:29:23,441
- Right.
- It's amazing.
1506
01:29:23,567 --> 01:29:25,777
I never thought about
that stuff before, you know.
1507
01:29:26,278 --> 01:29:28,446
- 'Cause you get back what you give, man.
- Yeah.
1508
01:29:28,530 --> 01:29:30,365
- You can count on that.
- Wow.
1509
01:29:31,366 --> 01:29:33,285
- Man.
- But you're on the right track, man.
1510
01:29:33,368 --> 01:29:36,246
- It's definitely a pleasure. An honor.
- I'm very proud of you, man.
1511
01:29:36,329 --> 01:29:38,290
- Thank you.
- And I'm always there for you.
1512
01:29:38,373 --> 01:29:40,542
- You got my card, right?
- Yup. Yup.
1513
01:29:40,625 --> 01:29:41,918
- Always there.
- Yup.
1514
01:29:42,002 --> 01:29:43,336
- I mean that.
- Yup.
1515
01:29:43,420 --> 01:29:45,020
- I'm gonna take that to heart.
- Mm-hmm.
1516
01:29:45,088 --> 01:29:46,464
I'm gonna take it to heart.
1517
01:29:55,473 --> 01:29:57,893
- [man] So, this is Prairie, huh?
- This is it.
1518
01:30:05,108 --> 01:30:09,446
Lord, that's it! Lord have mercy!
Just hold, just a second. God damn.
1519
01:30:10,989 --> 01:30:11,990
Wow.
1520
01:30:12,616 --> 01:30:15,160
God. Boy, this is heavy... Whoo!
1521
01:30:20,415 --> 01:30:22,292
That is unbelievable.
1522
01:30:26,922 --> 01:30:28,340
God damn!
1523
01:30:37,724 --> 01:30:38,975
That's frightening, man.
1524
01:30:50,487 --> 01:30:51,905
I can't put it all together.
1525
01:31:04,042 --> 01:31:05,293
Man, oh, man.
1526
01:31:06,127 --> 01:31:07,629
Look at this, I remember this.
1527
01:31:08,046 --> 01:31:10,423
Ooh! I remember this so well.
1528
01:31:13,593 --> 01:31:15,095
[steps creaking]
1529
01:31:18,723 --> 01:31:19,933
Yeah, we were back here.
1530
01:31:22,268 --> 01:31:23,937
Oh, my God, man.
1531
01:31:25,063 --> 01:31:26,063
Wow.
1532
01:31:27,232 --> 01:31:28,274
[exhaling]
1533
01:31:32,070 --> 01:31:36,324
You know what's amazing is how big
everything used to feel. It's so tiny.
1534
01:31:39,911 --> 01:31:42,956
Oh boy, it's my... My parents stayed here.
1535
01:31:48,044 --> 01:31:51,798
That's where they threw my mother
down on the bed and, uh...
1536
01:31:53,133 --> 01:31:55,260
and put her in a straitjacket.
1537
01:31:56,094 --> 01:31:57,303
And they took her away.
1538
01:32:03,393 --> 01:32:04,477
[groaning]
1539
01:32:04,561 --> 01:32:05,603
Jesus Christ.
1540
01:32:15,947 --> 01:32:18,116
["Cotton Curtain" by Quincy Jones plays]
1541
01:32:21,619 --> 01:32:24,831
I'm carrying around the past.
1542
01:32:27,042 --> 01:32:29,794
But you can sit
and wallow in that shit, you know...
1543
01:32:30,211 --> 01:32:33,923
and blame, and all the other stuff,
but it's not about that.
1544
01:32:35,300 --> 01:32:39,721
At one point, I stopped thinking about
myself and I started to think about her
1545
01:32:39,804 --> 01:32:42,766
and... think about the things
she had gone through.
1546
01:32:43,349 --> 01:32:44,684
And how much she loved us.
1547
01:32:45,727 --> 01:32:48,480
And I got it.
It was real late, but I got it, you know.
1548
01:32:50,065 --> 01:32:52,275
You got to let go all of the past,
you know,
1549
01:32:52,358 --> 01:32:54,027
bring the good parts forward,
1550
01:32:54,110 --> 01:32:57,238
forget about the negative stuff,
and go on.
1551
01:32:58,114 --> 01:33:01,451
Because whenever you get hung up
and locked into the past,
1552
01:33:01,534 --> 01:33:03,620
you're robbing yourself of the present...
1553
01:33:04,245 --> 01:33:06,081
and definitely the future, you know.
1554
01:33:07,749 --> 01:33:09,084
- How old are you?
- Eight.
1555
01:33:10,001 --> 01:33:11,586
I was here when I was your age.
1556
01:33:12,253 --> 01:33:14,506
You got Michael Jackson in business.
1557
01:33:14,923 --> 01:33:16,466
[laughing]
1558
01:33:28,937 --> 01:33:30,647
[Quincy] I was working on the show, man.
1559
01:33:30,730 --> 01:33:32,440
It's just right around the corner.
1560
01:33:33,441 --> 01:33:35,860
- [Rashida] You think you'll be ready, Dad?
- We'll get it.
1561
01:33:46,287 --> 01:33:48,039
[Quincy] Boy, oh boy, what history.
1562
01:33:55,338 --> 01:33:56,338
Oh, my God.
1563
01:33:58,049 --> 01:34:00,552
Boy, the shit they've gone through
in this country.
1564
01:34:05,348 --> 01:34:08,977
This has got to be the best
for young people to see, good God.
1565
01:34:16,568 --> 01:34:18,069
Look at Marvin over there.
1566
01:34:18,444 --> 01:34:19,444
My baby.
1567
01:34:19,904 --> 01:34:23,199
Look at this. All the old homies there.
1568
01:34:25,076 --> 01:34:26,411
Yeah, these are the kings.
1569
01:34:31,291 --> 01:34:32,584
Mm-mm-mm!
1570
01:34:33,376 --> 01:34:34,544
Unbelievable.
1571
01:34:37,463 --> 01:34:39,591
Here's your girl, Dinah Washington.
1572
01:34:40,341 --> 01:34:42,594
[Quincy] Look at Dinah, the Queen.
1573
01:34:43,720 --> 01:34:46,055
I started with her when I was 22.
1574
01:34:48,558 --> 01:34:50,476
It's heavy, man. This is like a dream.
1575
01:34:54,731 --> 01:34:55,815
My brother, man.
1576
01:35:01,404 --> 01:35:02,404
Smelly.
1577
01:35:06,951 --> 01:35:07,951
Heavy.
1578
01:35:11,039 --> 01:35:12,790
Lord have mercy, this is memories.
1579
01:35:13,166 --> 01:35:14,375
Memory lane, man.
1580
01:35:16,002 --> 01:35:18,755
This is so good for young people,
boy, I can't tell you.
1581
01:35:19,130 --> 01:35:20,690
Kids can see what the history is about.
1582
01:35:20,757 --> 01:35:23,152
- Exactly, exactly.
- It's beautiful, man. Thank you, brother.
1583
01:35:23,176 --> 01:35:25,345
Thank you. Been waiting all my life
to see this, man.
1584
01:35:28,264 --> 01:35:29,307
Jesus Christ.
1585
01:35:33,353 --> 01:35:34,353
Damn.
1586
01:35:35,188 --> 01:35:36,188
All of them gone.
1587
01:35:38,024 --> 01:35:39,025
That's frightening.
1588
01:35:47,158 --> 01:35:48,158
Hmm.
1589
01:35:48,451 --> 01:35:49,452
Beautiful people.
1590
01:35:53,456 --> 01:35:55,041
[high notes on a saxophone]
1591
01:35:55,124 --> 01:35:57,252
- Am I in tune?
- [Quincy] That's what I was gonna do.
1592
01:35:57,335 --> 01:35:59,045
- [one note]
- Feels a little high.
1593
01:35:59,128 --> 01:36:00,588
[note played on the piano]
1594
01:36:00,672 --> 01:36:02,382
- Um, sharp or flat?
- It's a little high.
1595
01:36:02,465 --> 01:36:04,926
- [man] A little sharp.
- [Davis] No shit.
1596
01:36:07,345 --> 01:36:09,430
[Quincy] If I had one more shot
to make an album,
1597
01:36:09,514 --> 01:36:11,182
it would be an album like this.
1598
01:36:11,849 --> 01:36:14,811
[scatting]
1599
01:36:14,894 --> 01:36:15,812
Whoa, baby!
1600
01:36:15,895 --> 01:36:17,855
- I'm supposed to keep right through?
- That's it.
1601
01:36:17,939 --> 01:36:19,565
You did just what you supposed to do.
1602
01:36:19,649 --> 01:36:21,943
- You know, it should be your personality.
- I'll try.
1603
01:36:22,026 --> 01:36:24,946
- Okay? And that's easy for you to be you.
- [laughing]
1604
01:36:25,488 --> 01:36:28,658
♪ Whoo-oo-oo, oo-oo-ah... ♪
1605
01:36:30,660 --> 01:36:34,956
[Quincy] Working with these artists
that people have loved over the years
1606
01:36:35,039 --> 01:36:38,918
like Ella Fitzgerald, and Sarah Vaughan,
and Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie,
1607
01:36:39,002 --> 01:36:39,919
and Ray Charles...
1608
01:36:40,003 --> 01:36:42,755
Now, Q, what do you want...
Okay, guys, where should I go?
1609
01:36:42,839 --> 01:36:44,674
♪ I'll be good to you... ♪
1610
01:36:44,757 --> 01:36:45,758
[Quincy] Yes, sir!
1611
01:36:46,843 --> 01:36:49,554
♪ Take you shoppin',
you know what I mean, baby... ♪
1612
01:36:49,637 --> 01:36:50,513
[laughter]
1613
01:36:50,596 --> 01:36:52,724
Did you say, "I'll take you shopping"?
1614
01:36:52,807 --> 01:36:54,392
Okay, yeah, I mean...
1615
01:36:54,475 --> 01:36:56,436
[laughter]
1616
01:36:56,519 --> 01:36:59,314
[Quincy] Along with the rappers,
the new people in the family,
1617
01:36:59,397 --> 01:37:01,316
like Kool Moe Dee and Ice-T,
1618
01:37:01,399 --> 01:37:04,485
and Melle Mel and Big Daddy Kane,
it's just been unbelievable.
1619
01:37:04,986 --> 01:37:06,654
You've got a real nice message here,
1620
01:37:06,738 --> 01:37:09,458
so try to just make sure all your words
are clear and coming through,
1621
01:37:09,532 --> 01:37:11,092
no matter what feeling you put into it.
1622
01:37:11,159 --> 01:37:13,920
♪ [rapping] I'm introducin'
A bop revolution In jazz that has pizazz ♪
1623
01:37:13,995 --> 01:37:16,497
♪ He is one player usin' it
As who is, his first name's Dizzy ♪
1624
01:37:16,581 --> 01:37:18,791
♪ Last name Gillespie
Now watch him get busy ♪
1625
01:37:18,875 --> 01:37:20,335
[Quincy] And there was a kinship.
1626
01:37:20,418 --> 01:37:23,254
There was a strong kinship between
hip hop and bebop, I could feel it.
1627
01:37:23,338 --> 01:37:27,633
And that's why I tried the fusion
of the two and it was so natural.
1628
01:37:27,717 --> 01:37:29,635
♪ Back on the block so we can rock ♪
1629
01:37:29,719 --> 01:37:32,347
♪ With the soul, rhythm, blues
Bebop, and hip hop ♪
1630
01:37:32,430 --> 01:37:34,223
♪ Back on the block so we can rock ♪
1631
01:37:34,307 --> 01:37:36,559
♪ With the soul, rhythm, blues
Bebop, and hip hop ♪
1632
01:37:36,934 --> 01:37:39,145
♪ Back on the block, back on the block ♪
1633
01:37:41,022 --> 01:37:45,568
♪ Ice-T, let me check my credentials
A young player bred in South Central... ♪
1634
01:37:46,069 --> 01:37:48,071
Back on the Block, Quincy Jones,
1635
01:37:48,154 --> 01:37:50,323
producer Quincy Jones.
1636
01:37:54,744 --> 01:37:55,995
I can't believe this.
1637
01:37:57,038 --> 01:38:00,375
I really can't believe this.
I've been in this Academy since 1958.
1638
01:38:00,750 --> 01:38:03,961
And this is the first time
I even dare think about having a...
1639
01:38:06,506 --> 01:38:09,884
Grammy... under my own name,
and I'm so proud.
1640
01:38:09,967 --> 01:38:11,636
[applause and cheering]
1641
01:38:11,719 --> 01:38:13,679
I'd like to firstly thank my mother.
1642
01:38:14,847 --> 01:38:16,974
To my beautiful children, my family.
1643
01:38:17,058 --> 01:38:19,977
I'd like to ask everyone to pray
for peace on Earth,
1644
01:38:20,061 --> 01:38:22,772
and when we get peace on Earth,
let's take care of the Earth.
1645
01:38:22,855 --> 01:38:24,690
Thank you very much. I'm very happy.
1646
01:38:24,774 --> 01:38:27,026
[cheers and applause]
1647
01:38:27,902 --> 01:38:29,612
[man] Why did you say that the next decade
1648
01:38:29,695 --> 01:38:32,198
is going to be the most difficult
ten years of your life?
1649
01:38:34,826 --> 01:38:38,788
It's when I'll have the energy
to really stand behind all of the things
1650
01:38:38,871 --> 01:38:41,082
that I believe about, creatively...
1651
01:38:41,624 --> 01:38:44,168
um, socially, politically,
1652
01:38:44,252 --> 01:38:46,212
personally, ethically,
morally, and everything.
1653
01:38:47,004 --> 01:38:52,093
We came here to announce the formation
of Qwest Broadcasting Company.
1654
01:38:52,844 --> 01:38:56,055
Qwest will be one of the largest
minority-controlled broadcasting groups
1655
01:38:56,139 --> 01:38:57,390
in the industry today.
1656
01:38:58,015 --> 01:39:01,769
Our first show went on NBC on Monday
nights, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
1657
01:39:01,853 --> 01:39:06,983
♪ Now this is a story all about how
My life got flipped, turned upside down ♪
1658
01:39:07,066 --> 01:39:09,986
[Will Smith] Quincy called me.
He said, "What are you doing?"
1659
01:39:10,069 --> 01:39:12,363
I said. "Well, you know, we're touring."
He said, "Okay.
1660
01:39:12,447 --> 01:39:14,699
Well, I want to pitch your future to you."
1661
01:39:15,199 --> 01:39:16,701
- Hey, Q!
- Hey!
1662
01:39:16,784 --> 01:39:18,327
[inaudible]
1663
01:39:18,411 --> 01:39:20,611
[Quincy] I saw him
from the first time he got on camera,
1664
01:39:20,663 --> 01:39:23,374
and I saw this man grow and grow.
1665
01:39:23,458 --> 01:39:26,836
[female reporter] Vibe is
the latest thrill for Quincy Jones,
1666
01:39:26,919 --> 01:39:30,089
who says his new magazine
will be for the '90s hip hoppers
1667
01:39:30,173 --> 01:39:32,884
what Rolling Stone was to '60s rockers.
1668
01:39:32,967 --> 01:39:35,678
[Quincy] I realized there's a whole
new music culture
1669
01:39:35,761 --> 01:39:39,432
that sits on the scene today
that I think is growing by the minute
1670
01:39:39,515 --> 01:39:41,142
and there's no voice for it.
1671
01:39:42,477 --> 01:39:43,895
[2Pac] ♪ How do U want it? ♪
1672
01:39:45,313 --> 01:39:46,481
♪ How do U feel? ♪
1673
01:39:47,523 --> 01:39:50,902
[woman] What is it about rap
that scares people?
1674
01:39:51,652 --> 01:39:54,489
[Quincy] It's young black urban males
with a lot of energy
1675
01:39:54,614 --> 01:39:58,242
and expressing the conditions
of their life in a very poetic way.
1676
01:39:58,326 --> 01:40:00,703
It's a very dramatic way,
a very theatrical way,
1677
01:40:01,120 --> 01:40:02,663
and it is very powerful stuff.
1678
01:40:02,747 --> 01:40:03,873
[inaudible]
1679
01:40:03,956 --> 01:40:06,276
[male reporter] The two have been
at the center of a battle
1680
01:40:06,334 --> 01:40:08,377
between east and west coast rappers.
1681
01:40:08,836 --> 01:40:12,340
[Quincy] I don't think they are aware
that they have such a tremendous heritage.
1682
01:40:12,757 --> 01:40:16,177
Sometimes they feel like they're alone
out there. But they're not alone.
1683
01:40:16,260 --> 01:40:17,678
[sirens wailing]
1684
01:40:17,762 --> 01:40:21,432
[male reporter] Fans on both coasts
want the real-life violence to stop.
1685
01:40:22,016 --> 01:40:25,061
I think communications can help a lot,
1686
01:40:25,144 --> 01:40:28,397
because we're getting ready to lose
two generations of young people.
1687
01:40:32,026 --> 01:40:36,405
[Quincy] We had a symposium, uh,
in New York with Suge Knight,
1688
01:40:36,489 --> 01:40:39,116
and Dr. Dre, and Puffy,
and all those people,
1689
01:40:39,200 --> 01:40:40,952
Public Enemy, and Colin Powell,
1690
01:40:41,035 --> 01:40:44,247
you know, to talk about
how do we even this out
1691
01:40:44,330 --> 01:40:46,457
so that they don't get blown away
so young.
1692
01:40:46,916 --> 01:40:49,752
Let's bring Quincy Jones up
so he can really set it off.
1693
01:40:49,835 --> 01:40:51,879
[applause]
1694
01:40:53,130 --> 01:40:56,968
The reason I fell in love with hip hop?
Because it reminded me so much of bebop,
1695
01:40:57,051 --> 01:41:00,596
and I feel a kinship there because we went
through a lot of the same stuff.
1696
01:41:00,680 --> 01:41:02,515
The philosophy behind bebop
1697
01:41:02,598 --> 01:41:05,226
is that you had to be hip,
you wanted to be hip.
1698
01:41:05,309 --> 01:41:07,019
And being hip is being aware.
1699
01:41:07,603 --> 01:41:12,275
The thing that really provoked me to say
it's time to pay attention now is Tupac.
1700
01:41:12,358 --> 01:41:15,361
We finally hooked up,
even though it was, uh...
1701
01:41:15,444 --> 01:41:18,656
tension conditions in the beginning,
we finally talked to each other
1702
01:41:18,739 --> 01:41:21,409
and he said nobody had talked
to him like that before.
1703
01:41:22,535 --> 01:41:24,453
And I said I can't take it anymore...
1704
01:41:24,537 --> 01:41:28,332
because we no longer
can afford to be non-political,
1705
01:41:28,416 --> 01:41:30,209
and I'm talking to the hip hop nation now.
1706
01:41:30,751 --> 01:41:35,047
We got to seriously talk about
what you are you going to... deal with.
1707
01:41:35,631 --> 01:41:38,551
They're not playing. There's real bullets
out there, believe me.
1708
01:41:40,052 --> 01:41:43,264
I'm not gonna roll on here.
I got so many things to say...
1709
01:41:44,307 --> 01:41:46,767
[voice cracking]
and it's a very emotional... thing.
1710
01:41:46,851 --> 01:41:49,228
I want to see you guys live
at least to my age.
1711
01:41:49,312 --> 01:41:50,312
I really do.
1712
01:41:54,317 --> 01:41:57,528
[female reporter] Rapper Biggie Smalls
was shot to death in Los Angeles.
1713
01:41:57,612 --> 01:42:00,239
His death comes almost exactly
six months to the day
1714
01:42:00,323 --> 01:42:04,493
that another rapper, Tupac Shakur,
was fatally shot in Las Vegas.
1715
01:42:05,911 --> 01:42:08,789
[Dr. Dre] His death is going
to open some eyes most definitely.
1716
01:42:08,873 --> 01:42:12,209
To me, I get the feeling that there's
already becoming a change in hip hop.
1717
01:42:12,293 --> 01:42:15,463
Everybody's moving more
to the positive vibe.
1718
01:42:15,546 --> 01:42:16,631
You know what I mean?
1719
01:42:17,632 --> 01:42:19,634
["Love and Peace" by Quincy Jones plays]
1720
01:42:39,362 --> 01:42:41,489
I've seen the power of music as a tool...
1721
01:42:42,156 --> 01:42:45,660
to reach the hearts and minds
of millions of people.
1722
01:42:46,077 --> 01:42:50,373
And since my voice carries louder
and farther than those of a few others,
1723
01:42:50,456 --> 01:42:53,376
I have a special responsibility
to sing a melody...
1724
01:42:53,918 --> 01:42:56,128
about poverty eradication,
1725
01:42:56,212 --> 01:42:59,465
to end the suffering
caused by extreme poverty.
1726
01:42:59,882 --> 01:43:02,051
And I have been hungry.
I know what it feels like.
1727
01:43:02,134 --> 01:43:04,762
And I don't care how much money I make
or suits I wear,
1728
01:43:04,845 --> 01:43:08,557
I never forget that feeling of what
it feels like when you miss the meals
1729
01:43:08,641 --> 01:43:10,351
and you can't eat for three days.
1730
01:43:11,644 --> 01:43:15,856
When Quincy decided that he wanted to be
more of a citizen with more impact,
1731
01:43:15,940 --> 01:43:18,609
not only in the United States,
but around the world,
1732
01:43:18,693 --> 01:43:21,445
he goes after that
the same way he went after music.
1733
01:43:21,862 --> 01:43:23,406
Hi, I'm Quincy Jones,
1734
01:43:23,614 --> 01:43:25,866
and this is the first official
opening ceremony
1735
01:43:25,950 --> 01:43:27,868
leading to the presidential inauguration.
1736
01:43:28,619 --> 01:43:30,413
- Hey, Rash!
- [Rashida] Busy, Dad?
1737
01:43:30,496 --> 01:43:32,248
- Who, me?
- [Rashida] Yeah.
1738
01:43:32,998 --> 01:43:35,185
[Clinton] He understands
that it's only through politics
1739
01:43:35,209 --> 01:43:38,713
that you can address some of the problems
that he cares a lot about.
1740
01:43:39,338 --> 01:43:42,633
[female reporter] Now Jones will gather
many of the world's A-list stars in Rome
1741
01:43:42,717 --> 01:43:44,802
for the "We Are the Future" concert.
1742
01:43:44,885 --> 01:43:46,303
Ciao, Roma!
1743
01:43:46,387 --> 01:43:49,432
[female reporter] The event will launch
a worldwide humanitarian effort
1744
01:43:49,515 --> 01:43:52,143
aimed at helping children
in war-ravaged countries.
1745
01:43:52,685 --> 01:43:55,165
[male reporter] Pope John Paul II
meets with Quincy Jones today
1746
01:43:55,229 --> 01:43:57,606
as part of an effort
to help get rid of Third World debt.
1747
01:43:58,441 --> 01:44:02,903
[Quincy] We're raising the funds now
to build 100 homes in South Africa
1748
01:44:02,987 --> 01:44:05,281
with the Habitat for Humanity.
1749
01:44:05,364 --> 01:44:07,074
My daddy used to do this, man.
1750
01:44:08,325 --> 01:44:11,370
[Mandela] I've got a great respect
for Quincy Jones.
1751
01:44:11,996 --> 01:44:14,915
For a man with such talents
1752
01:44:14,999 --> 01:44:17,960
to regard the struggle in South Africa...
1753
01:44:18,043 --> 01:44:21,422
This takes an exceptional human being.
1754
01:44:22,465 --> 01:44:24,467
What's interesting about Quincy
has been,
1755
01:44:24,550 --> 01:44:28,888
at each stage in this remarkable career,
he's been the first.
1756
01:44:29,472 --> 01:44:32,975
He's been somebody who's walked
through that door before anybody else has,
1757
01:44:33,434 --> 01:44:37,938
and that's given people behind him
enormous confidence.
1758
01:44:38,022 --> 01:44:40,232
And he's done it with grace.
1759
01:44:41,484 --> 01:44:44,236
- You only live 26,000 days.
- [Oprah] That's right.
1760
01:44:44,320 --> 01:44:46,631
- And you dead a lot longer than that.
- That's right, honey.
1761
01:44:46,655 --> 01:44:48,855
And so, I'm telling you,
I'm gonna wear all of them out.
1762
01:44:48,908 --> 01:44:51,494
And if I get to 80, that'll be 29,000.
1763
01:44:51,577 --> 01:44:53,204
I'm gonna wear 'em all out, you know?
1764
01:44:53,287 --> 01:44:56,081
They're gonna know...
we came through here.
1765
01:44:56,165 --> 01:44:59,752
["The Dude" by Quincy Jones plays]
1766
01:45:04,715 --> 01:45:05,800
It's from a...
1767
01:45:06,425 --> 01:45:09,178
a farm down in South Africa,
1768
01:45:09,261 --> 01:45:11,597
and they were going broke
with the produce,
1769
01:45:11,680 --> 01:45:14,350
so the owner of the farm
taught all the people that worked on it
1770
01:45:14,433 --> 01:45:15,559
how to do sculpting.
1771
01:45:16,519 --> 01:45:17,603
Isn't that something?
1772
01:45:17,937 --> 01:45:19,897
So I was at this art gallery...
1773
01:45:20,314 --> 01:45:22,942
with Mancini,
and I saw the dude that said,
1774
01:45:23,025 --> 01:45:24,693
"Take me with you, take me home."
1775
01:45:25,486 --> 01:45:27,696
You know, he just begged me
to take him home.
1776
01:45:28,823 --> 01:45:31,784
That's what inspired the album.
Isn't that something?
1777
01:45:31,867 --> 01:45:32,867
♪ That's the dude ♪
1778
01:45:32,910 --> 01:45:33,910
That's the dude.
1779
01:45:36,121 --> 01:45:37,540
Attitude, isn't it, man?
1780
01:45:38,833 --> 01:45:40,584
Is that attitude? Shit...!
1781
01:45:41,043 --> 01:45:42,563
Don't mess with that motherfucker,
boy.
1782
01:45:43,087 --> 01:45:44,964
And it just talked to me every night.
1783
01:45:45,464 --> 01:45:48,509
"Hey, motherfucker, I want to be an album.
I want to be a tune."
1784
01:45:48,592 --> 01:45:49,426
[chuckling]
1785
01:45:49,510 --> 01:45:52,179
[piano playing]
1786
01:45:52,680 --> 01:45:53,931
[Quincy] Merry Christmas.
1787
01:45:59,436 --> 01:46:00,479
This is my grandson.
1788
01:46:00,980 --> 01:46:01,814
Love you, man.
1789
01:46:01,897 --> 01:46:03,440
- Merry Christmas.
- You too, baby.
1790
01:46:03,524 --> 01:46:04,859
I adore you.
1791
01:46:07,111 --> 01:46:08,237
Yeah, baby!
1792
01:46:14,743 --> 01:46:15,828
Where's my kiss?
1793
01:46:18,414 --> 01:46:19,665
Thank you, sweetheart.
1794
01:46:19,748 --> 01:46:20,875
Oh!
1795
01:46:22,835 --> 01:46:25,504
- I love your class.
- [woman] Can you take a picture with us?
1796
01:46:25,588 --> 01:46:27,006
Thanks for tonight, Glo.
1797
01:46:28,924 --> 01:46:29,925
It was great.
1798
01:46:35,514 --> 01:46:39,101
When you almost leave here,
you really treasure a day like today.
1799
01:46:39,184 --> 01:46:40,185
Oh, man.
1800
01:46:41,520 --> 01:46:42,521
Really treasure it.
1801
01:46:46,734 --> 01:46:48,611
Every... every day, friends are dying.
1802
01:46:49,445 --> 01:46:50,654
It's really been crazy.
1803
01:46:51,614 --> 01:46:55,826
It's hard because, you know what,
you know that that telephone
1804
01:46:55,910 --> 01:46:57,453
will never be answered again.
1805
01:46:58,037 --> 01:47:00,789
Ray Charles, all those people,
it'll never be answered again,
1806
01:47:00,873 --> 01:47:02,124
and that's the hard part.
1807
01:47:02,750 --> 01:47:04,811
You've got their numbers,
the Cannonball's and stuff,
1808
01:47:04,835 --> 01:47:07,546
Dizzy's and Miles', and Sarah, and Ella,
and all that stuff,
1809
01:47:07,630 --> 01:47:09,548
but they're... they're gone, you know.
1810
01:47:09,632 --> 01:47:10,799
And it's painful.
1811
01:47:11,342 --> 01:47:12,342
Painful, man.
1812
01:47:12,968 --> 01:47:15,012
Lesley Gore, and Michael.
1813
01:47:15,888 --> 01:47:16,888
It's a killer.
1814
01:47:18,599 --> 01:47:19,642
[sighing]
1815
01:47:21,977 --> 01:47:23,103
But that's life.
1816
01:47:30,819 --> 01:47:31,987
Hey, Quincy.
1817
01:47:34,823 --> 01:47:35,866
This is me.
1818
01:47:37,409 --> 01:47:38,494
You know what?
1819
01:47:44,750 --> 01:47:49,046
♪ Nights alone ♪
1820
01:47:55,177 --> 01:48:00,265
♪ Since you went away ♪
1821
01:48:05,270 --> 01:48:07,731
♪ I think about you ♪
1822
01:48:15,114 --> 01:48:18,617
♪ All through the day ♪
1823
01:48:20,411 --> 01:48:22,496
♪ My buddy ♪
1824
01:48:29,920 --> 01:48:33,882
♪ My buddy ♪
1825
01:48:40,931 --> 01:48:45,060
♪ Your buddy ♪
1826
01:48:46,311 --> 01:48:51,567
♪ Misses ♪
1827
01:48:52,443 --> 01:48:56,280
♪ You ♪
1828
01:48:58,407 --> 01:48:59,533
Aww, Quincy...
1829
01:49:01,535 --> 01:49:03,787
I love you, man. I love you.
1830
01:49:05,205 --> 01:49:06,999
[applause]
1831
01:49:15,382 --> 01:49:21,972
Today, as so many generations have before,
we gather on our National Mall...
1832
01:49:23,515 --> 01:49:27,311
to tell an essential part
of our American story.
1833
01:49:29,438 --> 01:49:31,940
One that has, at times, been overlooked.
1834
01:49:37,446 --> 01:49:39,490
[man] Quincy is the reason
we're all here.
1835
01:49:39,573 --> 01:49:41,992
He suggested
that we all get involved in this.
1836
01:49:42,076 --> 01:49:42,951
[applause]
1837
01:49:43,035 --> 01:49:44,078
[Quincy] Thank you.
1838
01:49:45,746 --> 01:49:47,164
You know what would be a good idea?
1839
01:49:47,247 --> 01:49:49,416
So if you're doing a live
"America the Beautiful",
1840
01:49:49,500 --> 01:49:52,586
you ought to play Ray Charles'
"America the Beautiful" in there too.
1841
01:49:52,669 --> 01:49:54,546
- The combination would be hot.
- Yeah.
1842
01:49:55,380 --> 01:49:57,260
As soon as you get the script,
just send it him.
1843
01:49:57,299 --> 01:50:00,761
Maybe we'll let him use his own words
about how happy he is to see the museum.
1844
01:50:01,261 --> 01:50:03,781
"African-Americans came from Carolinas,
Florida, New Orleans..."
1845
01:50:03,847 --> 01:50:07,184
Just cut that out and start,
"A lot of whites came from Downtown."
1846
01:50:07,267 --> 01:50:09,812
- We didn't get Colin Powell yet, huh?
- Huh?
1847
01:50:09,895 --> 01:50:12,176
- Didn't get Colin Powell?
- Don't think they got him yet.
1848
01:50:13,482 --> 01:50:15,275
Okay, I'll call Colin, man, I'll call him.
1849
01:50:16,318 --> 01:50:18,445
My brother, Colin, this is Quincy, man.
1850
01:50:18,904 --> 01:50:19,904
Yeah.
1851
01:50:20,739 --> 01:50:22,116
But we need you, man.
1852
01:50:22,199 --> 01:50:24,618
And Tom Hanks will introduce you,
you know,
1853
01:50:24,701 --> 01:50:26,954
right after they do the Tuskegee Airmen.
1854
01:50:28,413 --> 01:50:30,165
All right, Colin, I love you, man.
1855
01:50:30,666 --> 01:50:31,666
Done.
1856
01:50:32,209 --> 01:50:33,209
Colin Powell.
1857
01:50:36,421 --> 01:50:37,421
We got him.
1858
01:50:38,882 --> 01:50:39,883
And Jada.
1859
01:50:47,141 --> 01:50:50,060
So, did you hear back from her yet?
Oprah?
1860
01:50:50,144 --> 01:50:51,412
- Just from the assistant.
- Okay.
1861
01:50:51,436 --> 01:50:52,771
She was passing it along.
1862
01:50:52,855 --> 01:50:56,233
[man] Okay, thank you, we'll begin
this rehearsal just as we did before.
1863
01:50:56,775 --> 01:50:57,860
♪ Hold on ♪
1864
01:50:57,943 --> 01:51:00,154
♪ Stand ♪
1865
01:51:00,237 --> 01:51:01,363
♪ Be strong ♪
1866
01:51:01,446 --> 01:51:02,823
♪ Stand ♪
1867
01:51:02,906 --> 01:51:04,533
♪ God will step in ♪
1868
01:51:04,616 --> 01:51:06,368
♪ Stand ♪
1869
01:51:06,451 --> 01:51:08,120
♪ And it won't be long ♪
1870
01:51:08,203 --> 01:51:09,997
♪ Ooh, just... ♪
1871
01:51:10,414 --> 01:51:12,916
Killed it, man. What a beautiful feeling.
1872
01:51:13,000 --> 01:51:16,753
Don, would you mind putting Chick Webb
before Ella Fitzgerald?
1873
01:51:16,837 --> 01:51:18,422
- Okay, okay.
- Great stuff, baby.
1874
01:51:26,722 --> 01:51:27,806
[sighing]
1875
01:51:28,849 --> 01:51:30,225
- [man] Got Oprah.
- Okay.
1876
01:51:30,976 --> 01:51:32,269
I can't wait to see ya.
1877
01:51:32,811 --> 01:51:36,231
You're going to have a ball, honey.
You're gonna have a ball. I love you.
1878
01:51:37,107 --> 01:51:39,776
♪ I sing ♪
1879
01:51:39,860 --> 01:51:42,529
♪ Because... ♪
1880
01:51:42,613 --> 01:51:43,488
Yeah, baby!
1881
01:51:43,572 --> 01:51:44,572
♪...I'm happy... ♪
1882
01:51:44,615 --> 01:51:45,615
Hell, yeah.
1883
01:51:48,410 --> 01:51:50,495
♪ I sing ♪
1884
01:51:51,288 --> 01:51:57,920
♪ Because I'm free... ♪
1885
01:51:58,003 --> 01:52:00,297
- You guys are so good, honey!
- Thank you!
1886
01:52:00,380 --> 01:52:02,299
- Thank you!
- So good, honey!
1887
01:52:02,382 --> 01:52:03,902
- Thank you so much!
- Thank you, honey.
1888
01:52:03,926 --> 01:52:06,470
- For just being being on this planet.
- No, you!
1889
01:52:06,553 --> 01:52:08,639
- God bless you, honey.
- You are so inspirational.
1890
01:52:08,722 --> 01:52:10,349
I feel your soul and your minds.
1891
01:52:10,891 --> 01:52:13,101
- You guys singing those thirds, I love it.
- Thank you!
1892
01:52:13,185 --> 01:52:14,621
- You do your own arrangements?
- Yes.
1893
01:52:14,645 --> 01:52:15,771
Go on, girl!
1894
01:52:15,854 --> 01:52:16,855
[laughing]
1895
01:52:16,939 --> 01:52:18,941
- Love it. Solos and harmony.
- That means so much.
1896
01:52:19,024 --> 01:52:21,318
No, honey, I mean it.
I'm too old to be full of it.
1897
01:52:21,401 --> 01:52:22,401
[laughing]
1898
01:52:22,945 --> 01:52:24,196
So exciting, man.
1899
01:52:24,529 --> 01:52:26,573
They're killin' it. Thanks, Don.
1900
01:52:30,202 --> 01:52:31,745
[woman] That's Quincy Jones!
1901
01:52:31,828 --> 01:52:33,914
[inaudible]
1902
01:52:33,997 --> 01:52:35,290
- "Hardcore."
- [laughing]
1903
01:52:35,374 --> 01:52:37,960
We came all the way
from North Carolina for this!
1904
01:52:38,043 --> 01:52:39,544
- Really?
- Thank you!
1905
01:52:39,628 --> 01:52:40,629
God bless you.
1906
01:52:42,464 --> 01:52:45,759
[passers-by shouting]
1907
01:52:45,842 --> 01:52:46,842
Me, too.
1908
01:52:47,094 --> 01:52:48,094
Love the band!
1909
01:52:49,346 --> 01:52:51,306
Tennessee State, man.
They're incredible, man.
1910
01:52:51,890 --> 01:52:53,475
Hey, baby. How you doing?
1911
01:52:53,558 --> 01:52:54,393
Hi.
1912
01:52:54,476 --> 01:52:56,144
I know, Dad, I can't wait.
1913
01:52:56,228 --> 01:52:59,564
You look so good, Daddy!
You look so sharp.
1914
01:53:02,442 --> 01:53:03,442
Hey, girl!
1915
01:53:04,111 --> 01:53:06,947
Hey, Mary. God bless you, honey.
I'm so glad you're here.
1916
01:53:07,447 --> 01:53:08,847
- Thanks for having me.
- Thank you.
1917
01:53:08,907 --> 01:53:12,577
- We're gonna have a fun show.
- Oh, baby, it's a killer, man. Killer!
1918
01:53:12,661 --> 01:53:14,246
- How are you, buddy?
- Good to see you.
1919
01:53:14,329 --> 01:53:15,809
- Yeah, you kicked it, man.
- Oh, man.
1920
01:53:15,872 --> 01:53:17,374
It was fun last night, wasn't it?
1921
01:53:17,457 --> 01:53:19,793
- Hey, Tom. How you doin', brother?
- Good to see you!
1922
01:53:19,876 --> 01:53:21,396
- You too, man!
- How you doin', my man?
1923
01:53:21,420 --> 01:53:22,462
You're looking fantastic!
1924
01:53:22,546 --> 01:53:25,090
- I stopped drinking 19 months ago.
- Did you really?
1925
01:53:25,173 --> 01:53:27,676
Well, your life
is totally different, then.
1926
01:53:27,759 --> 01:53:29,261
How you sleeping? All good?
1927
01:53:29,344 --> 01:53:30,637
- Incredible.
- Beautiful.
1928
01:53:30,721 --> 01:53:33,307
- So happy you're here, man.
- I'm here, ready to do the thing.
1929
01:53:33,390 --> 01:53:35,309
- You called and I came, man.
- Love you, man.
1930
01:53:36,018 --> 01:53:37,811
Hey, baby! How you doing, man?
1931
01:53:37,894 --> 01:53:39,313
So proud of you, man.
1932
01:53:39,396 --> 01:53:41,606
- Whoa!
- [crowd shouting greetings]
1933
01:53:42,482 --> 01:53:44,402
- [Oprah] All right. I came to play.
- All right.
1934
01:53:44,985 --> 01:53:45,819
On my way.
1935
01:53:45,902 --> 01:53:47,112
[people chattering]
1936
01:53:47,195 --> 01:53:48,447
Heads up, five minute warning.
1937
01:53:48,947 --> 01:53:50,407
Want to practice once?
1938
01:53:50,490 --> 01:53:53,827
"It was the happening place.
We called it the Uptown Getdown."
1939
01:53:53,910 --> 01:53:55,120
- That's good.
- That's better.
1940
01:53:55,787 --> 01:53:59,541
[man] Ladies and gentlemen,
the President of the United States,
1941
01:53:59,624 --> 01:54:02,377
Barack Obama,
and Mrs. Michelle Obama.
1942
01:54:02,461 --> 01:54:04,171
[applause]
1943
01:54:05,339 --> 01:54:06,339
[Quincy] Voilà!
1944
01:54:06,923 --> 01:54:07,966
Now we're talking.
1945
01:54:09,217 --> 01:54:10,969
[cheering]
1946
01:54:11,053 --> 01:54:13,305
We're here to celebrate, and laugh,
and clap along,
1947
01:54:13,388 --> 01:54:15,349
and probably even cry a little
1948
01:54:15,432 --> 01:54:19,102
to mark the opening
of the first museum in the country
1949
01:54:19,186 --> 01:54:25,609
dedicated to the African-American
experience in America!
1950
01:54:30,280 --> 01:54:34,534
A father who always gets
the music started, as he will tonight.
1951
01:54:34,618 --> 01:54:35,869
Quincy Jones!
1952
01:54:35,952 --> 01:54:38,580
And his daughter, Rashida Jones!
1953
01:54:38,663 --> 01:54:41,041
[applause]
1954
01:54:41,124 --> 01:54:44,544
[big band style
"Fly Me To The Moon" plays]
1955
01:54:51,343 --> 01:54:52,219
How are y'all?
1956
01:54:52,302 --> 01:54:54,262
[audience] Yeah!
1957
01:54:54,346 --> 01:54:56,264
So, let me just set the scene for you.
1958
01:54:56,973 --> 01:54:59,643
Harlem, in the '20s and '30s,
1959
01:54:59,726 --> 01:55:02,187
not just an address, but a state of mind.
1960
01:55:02,270 --> 01:55:04,856
["America The Beautiful"
by Ray Charles plays]
1961
01:55:04,940 --> 01:55:08,318
♪ Mmm, America ♪
1962
01:55:10,821 --> 01:55:14,908
♪ May God thy gold refine ♪
1963
01:55:16,827 --> 01:55:21,623
♪ Till all success ♪
1964
01:55:23,041 --> 01:55:25,836
♪ Be nobleness... ♪
1965
01:55:25,919 --> 01:55:29,131
Ladies and gentlemen,
six surviving members
1966
01:55:29,214 --> 01:55:30,715
of the Tuskegee Airmen.
1967
01:55:30,799 --> 01:55:32,801
[cheers and applause]
1968
01:55:34,094 --> 01:55:35,512
♪ Well, now, wait a minute ♪
1969
01:55:36,388 --> 01:55:37,472
♪ I'm talkin' about ♪
1970
01:55:38,849 --> 01:55:40,350
♪ America ♪
1971
01:55:41,685 --> 01:55:44,604
♪ Sweet America ♪
1972
01:55:46,815 --> 01:55:52,529
♪ You know,
God done shed his grace on thee
1973
01:55:53,405 --> 01:55:57,534
♪ He crowned thy good ♪
1974
01:55:58,076 --> 01:55:59,202
♪ Yes, he did ♪
1975
01:56:00,245 --> 01:56:03,165
♪ Yeah, with brotherhood ♪
1976
01:56:03,248 --> 01:56:05,959
♪ From sea to... ♪
1977
01:56:06,042 --> 01:56:07,586
Up there is the first black President.
1978
01:56:07,669 --> 01:56:09,004
♪...Shining sea ♪
1979
01:56:10,088 --> 01:56:13,258
♪ Oh Lord, oh Lord! ♪
1980
01:56:13,925 --> 01:56:15,719
♪ I thank you, Lord ♪
1981
01:56:15,802 --> 01:56:21,725
♪ Shining sea... ♪
1982
01:56:27,147 --> 01:56:28,857
- Great, honey.
- You did great, Dad.
1983
01:56:39,659 --> 01:56:40,659
[Quincy] Killer!
1984
01:56:40,702 --> 01:56:41,828
[man] Thank you.
1985
01:56:41,912 --> 01:56:44,498
God bless you. Y'all are bad, baby.
1986
01:56:45,999 --> 01:56:46,999
Yeah.
1987
01:56:47,042 --> 01:56:50,086
I have to thank you, man,
from the bottom of my heart, man.
1988
01:56:50,670 --> 01:56:52,510
- [Quincy] God bless you, man.
- God bless you.
1989
01:56:53,340 --> 01:56:55,717
- What an experience.
- [Quincy] Keep on keepin' on.
1990
01:56:56,968 --> 01:56:58,553
- Q!
- [Quincy] Thank you.
1991
01:56:58,637 --> 01:56:59,637
You kill me, baby!
1992
01:56:59,679 --> 01:57:00,680
[Quincy] What a night.
1993
01:57:00,764 --> 01:57:02,182
- [Quincy] God bless.
- God bless.
1994
01:57:02,933 --> 01:57:03,933
[Quincy] Thank you.
1995
01:57:04,434 --> 01:57:05,352
God bless, honey.
1996
01:57:05,435 --> 01:57:07,062
- How was it?
- Oh, I cried, honey.
1997
01:57:07,145 --> 01:57:08,396
- Oh, you did?
- Yeah.
1998
01:57:08,480 --> 01:57:09,481
God bless, baby.
1999
01:57:12,400 --> 01:57:13,443
[exhaling deeply]
2000
01:57:13,527 --> 01:57:14,527
God damn.
2001
01:57:19,824 --> 01:57:20,909
That's big stuff, man.
2002
01:57:20,992 --> 01:57:24,788
It's a big... responsibility
in this generation, you know.
2003
01:57:24,871 --> 01:57:26,164
"Here's what happened."
2004
01:57:29,793 --> 01:57:33,129
It's a journey, coming up in this fucking
country, man. Chicago...
2005
01:57:33,213 --> 01:57:34,214
[exhaling]
2006
01:57:37,217 --> 01:57:38,217
No joke.
2007
01:57:38,510 --> 01:57:41,054
I didn't see anybody white
till I was 11 years old.
2008
01:57:42,389 --> 01:57:44,391
And the kids, the kids' minds...
2009
01:57:45,183 --> 01:57:46,184
most of them...
2010
01:57:46,268 --> 01:57:49,563
are not into that shit,
'cause you have to be taught how to hate.
2011
01:57:50,105 --> 01:57:52,440
That's not natural,
to hate somebody because of their skin.
2012
01:57:52,524 --> 01:57:54,192
You don't have nothing to do with that.
2013
01:57:54,276 --> 01:57:56,861
So how people can judge somebody
by the color of their skin
2014
01:57:56,945 --> 01:57:58,196
is fucked up, you know?
2015
01:58:02,659 --> 01:58:06,413
But I... I have a feeling
that God will prevail,
2016
01:58:06,913 --> 01:58:09,040
and... the light will prevail.
2017
01:58:09,374 --> 01:58:10,875
You have to think like that.
2018
01:58:12,335 --> 01:58:15,338
'Cause we've come a long way,
but we've got a long way to go.
2019
01:58:25,265 --> 01:58:27,767
[Chaka Khan] ♪ There's a dream ♪
2020
01:58:27,851 --> 01:58:29,853
♪ In your eyes ♪
2021
01:58:30,103 --> 01:58:32,272
♪ Reflecting what's in front of you ♪
2022
01:58:32,355 --> 01:58:33,857
♪ It's blinding but it's in you ♪
2023
01:58:33,940 --> 01:58:38,194
♪ There's a world
On the tip of your tongue ♪
2024
01:58:38,278 --> 01:58:40,280
♪ A taste lingering on your lips ♪
2025
01:58:40,363 --> 01:58:42,741
♪ A feeling on your fingertips ♪
2026
01:58:42,824 --> 01:58:48,163
♪ Ooh, can't nobody tell you
What you cannot do ♪
2027
01:58:48,622 --> 01:58:51,666
♪ Write a word and watch emotions
Flow right through you ♪
2028
01:58:51,791 --> 01:58:56,838
♪ Make a bid, why, you're like a rocket
Watch it soar across the moon ♪
2029
01:58:58,423 --> 01:59:00,342
♪ And keep reachin' ♪
2030
01:59:02,636 --> 01:59:04,346
♪ Keep reachin' ♪
2031
01:59:06,640 --> 01:59:08,725
- ♪ Just keep on reachin' ♪
- ♪ Keep on reachin' ♪
2032
01:59:08,808 --> 01:59:12,520
♪ All you got to do is keep reachin' ♪
2033
01:59:13,813 --> 01:59:15,899
[woman] Is there anything you think
you tried to do
2034
01:59:15,982 --> 01:59:17,359
that you didn't succeed at?
2035
01:59:18,401 --> 01:59:19,401
[laughs]
2036
01:59:20,278 --> 01:59:21,279
Marriage.
2037
01:59:21,363 --> 01:59:23,073
[both laugh]
2038
01:59:31,331 --> 01:59:35,377
♪ Like a star in the sky ♪
2039
01:59:35,794 --> 01:59:37,754
♪ It's always been right there for you ♪
2040
01:59:37,837 --> 01:59:39,673
♪ That's why you know what to do ♪
2041
01:59:39,756 --> 01:59:43,259
♪ You heard the call that set you free ♪
2042
01:59:43,927 --> 01:59:48,348
♪ There's nothing that can stop you
From becoming what you're meant to be ♪
2043
01:59:48,431 --> 01:59:53,520
♪ Ooh, can't nobody tell you
What you cannot do ♪
2044
01:59:54,312 --> 01:59:57,357
♪ Write a word and watch emotions flow
Right through you ♪
2045
01:59:57,440 --> 02:00:02,696
♪ Make a bid, why, you're like a rocket
Watch it soar across the moon ♪
2046
02:00:04,239 --> 02:00:05,907
♪ Keep reachin' ♪
2047
02:00:08,284 --> 02:00:10,161
♪ Keep reachin' ♪
2048
02:00:12,205 --> 02:00:14,499
- ♪ Just keep on reachin' ♪
- ♪ Keep on reachin' ♪
2049
02:00:14,582 --> 02:00:18,086
♪ All you got to do is keep reachin' ♪
2050
02:01:09,387 --> 02:01:10,387
♪ Yeah ♪
2051
02:01:10,430 --> 02:01:15,602
♪ Ooh, can't nobody tell you
What you cannot do ♪
2052
02:01:16,352 --> 02:01:19,397
♪ Write a word and watch emotions flow
Right through you ♪
2053
02:01:19,481 --> 02:01:24,861
♪ Make a bid, why, you're like a rocket
Watch it soar across the moon ♪
2054
02:01:26,321 --> 02:01:27,739
♪ Keep reachin' ♪
2055
02:01:30,450 --> 02:01:31,993
♪ Keep reachin' ♪
2056
02:01:32,827 --> 02:01:33,953
♪ Reachin' ♪
2057
02:01:34,287 --> 02:01:36,498
- ♪ Just keep on reachin' ♪
- ♪ Keep on reachin' ♪
2058
02:01:36,581 --> 02:01:40,001
♪ All you got to do is keep reachin' ♪
2059
02:01:42,504 --> 02:01:44,130
♪ And keep reachin' ♪
2060
02:01:44,214 --> 02:01:46,716
♪ Whoo, yeah ♪
2061
02:01:46,800 --> 02:01:48,384
♪ Keep reachin' ♪
2062
02:01:50,762 --> 02:01:53,014
- ♪ Just keep on reachin' ♪
- ♪ Keep on reachin' ♪
2063
02:01:53,097 --> 02:01:56,518
♪ All you got to do is keep reachin' ♪
2064
02:02:25,713 --> 02:02:28,633
["Soul Bossa Nova" by Quincy Jones plays]
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