I find it extremely refreshing that Quincy Jones keeps it honest. The talented musician and record producer was very close with Michael Jackson for decades. That being said, Quincy will call a spade a spade and he doesn't care.
Quincy does NOT hold back in his interview with Details magazine's website Style. Quincy was so aware of Michael's disturbing life, I wonder how he tried to help him? I, too, find it disturbing that Michael Jackson's kids are white. It's shameful that he had to have white children. Sadly Michael was a handsome man when he was black and prior to getting his face butchered up by plastic surgeons.
Here's Quincy's explosive interview:
Q: You were there to witness the strange evolution in Michael's appearance. Did you ever step in and saying anything about it?
A: Oh, we talked about it all the time. But he'd come up with, "Man, I promise you I have this disease," and so forth, and "I have a blister on my lungs," and all that kind of b.s. It's hard, because Michael's a Virgo, man—he's very set in his ways. You can't talk him out of it. Chemical peels and all that stuff.
Q: Did you believe him about the disease?
A: I don't believe in any of that bullshit, no. No. Never. I've been around junkies and stuff all my life. I've heard every excuse. It's like smokers—"I only smoke when I drink" and all that stuff. But it's bullshit. You're justifying something that's destructive to your existence. It's crazy. I mean, I came up with Ray Charles, man. You know, nobody gonna pull no wool over my eyes. He did heroin 20 years! Come on. And black coffee and gin for 40 years. But when he called me to come over to see him when he was in the hospital on his way out, man, he had emphysema, hepatitis C, cirrhosis of the liver, and five malignant tumors. Please, man! I've been around this all my life. So it's hard for somebody to pull the wool over my eyes. But when somebody's hell-bent on it, you can't stop 'em.
Q: But it must've been so disturbing to see Michael's face turn into what it turned into.
A: It's ridiculous, man! Chemical peels and all of it. And I don't understand it. But he obviously didn't want to be black.
Q: Is that what it was?
A: Well, what do you think? You see his kids?
Q: Did you ever discuss it? Did you ever ask, "Michael, don't you want to be a black man?"
A: No, no, no, please. That's not the way you do it.
Q: But he was beautiful before?
A: Man, he was the most gorgeous guy.
Q: At root, what do you think killed Michael Jackson?
A: I don't know, man. I'm a musician. I'm not a psychiatrist. I would think that the pressure of the concerts and the debt and everything else . . . look, I've been in the hands of Nobel doctors for the last five years, in Stockholm, at the Karolinska hospital, which you can't even pay to get in. I've learned so much about the human mind and the body, and the doctors talk all the time about how you become your thoughts. It's true. With one thought it starts, you know, and if you sit there and just stay hung up on one negative thought, you will become that thought. I know that Lisa Marie Presley said that she always thought he was going to die like Elvis. You sit and think about that stuff, it'll happen to you. If you start thinking about darkness instead of light, or fear instead of love, you'll get in trouble. I really believe that.
Q: You've said that you don't attend funerals anymore because you've lost so many friends. Do you plan to attend Michael Jackson's funeral?
A: No, not at all, not at all. Because it's going to be, like, 9 million people there, and it's not what I want to see.
Q: You're not going to be there?
A: No. I can't be there, anyway. I'm going to Wales the day after tomorrow, I go to Montreux, I go to Marbella, I go to the south of France. My condolences and love I've already sent to the family. But being there with 10 million people is not my idea of a tribute to somebody you were so close to—who's got a part of your soul. Our souls were joined, you know. And a piece of it goes with him.
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July 3rd, 2009 1:24 PM
Rest in peace, Michael. :(
July 3rd, 2009 1:32 PM
As for Quincy, he needs to STFU. I've never even seen that man with a black woman. All of his wives and girlfriends were white. He obviously has a complex about his race himself because he dates exclusively outside of his race. He is in no place to judge Michael when all of his kids are half white.
July 4th, 2009 1:07 PM
@ lolafola:
Priciesly! (sp) That's exactly what I thought. The minute he mentioned about the kids, I remember back to seeing his daughter on Access Hollywood talking about Micheal's pet monkey, Bubbles, and she looked white as as sheet. I was shocked.
"Q: Did you ever discuss it? Did you ever ask, "Michael, don't you want to be a black man?"
A: No, no, no, please. That's not the way you do it. "
EXCUSE ME!? That's damn straight how you do it. He was always set in his ways? Please. I understand that it was like dealing with a drug addict (which Micheal was) but really hasn't been the root problem that people were giving up on setting Micheal straight? He's father was a dick, telling him he was never attractive, made fun of at school, had no sense of childhood. No, I'm not making excuses for Mike's crappy behaviour of the past 25 years. I'm saying, as much as I respect Quincy's honesty, if people were being more up front with Mike constantly then be all "yes, yes, yes" and "fine Mike, ahve it your way", he problably wouldn't be DEAD now! Yeah, it's his life, but if I were Mike's close friend, I would be damn not for him to shit is life up. I'm sorry, but I would do as much as I can to help a man out, especially if he was never right in the head. That's how set I AM in my ways. Call your own bluff, Quincy.
July 5th, 2009 5:43 AM
Quincy sure may be talented but he sounds as dumb as a door nail in interview. He may tell it like it is, but he must be hard pressed finding some class!
if he is upfront, why wouldnt he confront him about all these issues he thought was going on in his head? if you dont step up to the plate and try help, your just as much part of the problem..
July 6th, 2009 4:49 PM
Is anyone blogging today? This has been here since this AM and I want my daily gossip fix!
July 7th, 2009 9:23 PM
that WAS so very refreshing! i see wut u mean..go quincy..RIP MJ..there will never be another
July 7th, 2009 11:13 PM
U know what? Quincy you are a total traitor! If I even thought what you thought, I would not have ever said this. I would have never given the media more fuel to add to the fire! Shame on u and I hope MJ's family has nothing to do with u in the future. A part of your soul, he's your little brother...you're full of crap!
July 8th, 2009 9:21 AM
Because we loved Michael (given his music was often the soundtrack to our lives) we ignore the clear obvious that he was very wierd and clearly hated his Blackness
July 10th, 2009 1:09 AM
Yeah Michael was a gorgeous man back in the day. I wish that he didn't have such a comple about the way he looked. I think Quincy is the type of person that just tells it like it is whether people like it or not. However I don't think he can't talk about Mike too much because all his kids are mixwd with white and you never see him with no sistas on his arm. It's like the pot calling the kettle black. It would have been nice if Michael got with a black woman and had black children but you can't deny the fact that he did love his kids regardless if they are white.
July 10th, 2009 1:12 AM
oops I mispelled complex and mixed. My bad....