Tavis Smiley interview
Jones discusses his new movie, Keep on Keepin’ On, a documentary about the mentoring relationship between jazz legend Clark Terry and a blind piano prodigy in this interview for PBS.
And just everything there is – and that’s what touches me so much about it is there’s so many coincidental situations there that the whole film is about divine intervention. I always loved that phrase when they say that coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous. Very true ’cause, man, there’s so many coincidental things that are going on in that film.
Quincy Jones interview
Hall interviews Jones on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about how much he misses Michael Jackson, how Thriller is still the best selling album and how the evolution of big bands came about.
I did my homework when I was very young, I didn’t care about money or fame. That’s the way beboppers work we just talk about resolution.
O Magazine interview
Jones discusses the impact of a brain aneurysm he had at age 41 in an interview with O Magazine.
It made me realize that if I lived to age 82, I would have about 30,000 days on this earth. And that number had to be cut in thirds—I’d sleep for 10,000 days, work for 10,000 days, then do whatever else in the remaining time. After the aneurysm, the doctor told me that deep in our subconscious, each of us has either a life force or a death wish. He said those who have a death wish can be taken out by the flu. But the ones who have a life force survive.