Quincy Jones on Michael Jackson: 'He Obviously Didn't Want to be Black'
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 27th, 2010 11:01 AM
I DON'T get it. Look at Quincy's children.... they are WHITE, W_H_I_T_E!!! WTF?
This is either a bull-shhhh interview or Q.J. was on drugs that day...
July 14th, 2010 7:17 PM
I think that Michael actually wanted to be white, don't get me wrong I really love Michael Jackson I'm a big fan of him but Michael is in denial about a lot of things, For one his skin at one point I think that he has vitiligo and then i don't think he does because if you notice when he first turned white he was like a dark shade of white this is around 1987 four years later in 1991 mysteriously his skin became a pale white if you are a victim of vitiligo your skin automatically turns white yeah his skin turn white but not white enough then he gets lighter. I know that he wanted to be white and me being a black person and being a black woman that's very upsetting because it seems like he turned his back on the African American race. Second his plastic surgeries his constant denials seemed to make it worst than what it was he only admitted to only two plastic surgeries but I believe that there were way more. Finally his relationships, marriages and children. If you notice that all his g
July 4th, 2010 1:07 PM
i love michael jackson he "IS!" my idol and always will be for my birthday i am going to get tons and tons of posters of him!! :) i wish he was still alive this day i never got to go to one of his conserts :( oh well he is still alive in my heart!! :)
October 6th, 2009 7:09 PM
Whoever believes this is dumb as shit. Quincy is an old rude man, fuck him! Mike had vitiligo.
September 12th, 2009 3:07 PM
HES A DAMN FOOL MJ REALLY HAD A DISEASE AND HERES PROOF please see all links !!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=084VrfNpZJU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_0zxCCGQ6Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lVUvOLdg50&feature=fvsr
suck on this!!!
August 18th, 2009 1:01 AM
Quincy and MJ might've parted ways in a bad way and he says all these because he knows he's safe, MJ is no longer here. MJ can't defend himself. I think he wasn't invited to MJ's funeral and thus vented his anger at the interview.
August 12th, 2009 4:09 AM
As much as I love MJ lets keep it real. He did not want to be black . Just as Quincy Jones says I'm glad someone who has been around him for a long time is speaking truth because Quincy been around and worked with him on the wiz, off the wall, thriller and bad and the more successful Michael became the more white he looked and associated. I'm a black woman and people may not like hearing these comments from Quincy Jones but with those white women he produced his own children. michael paid 8 mil for white kids. Who in the hell pays their wife(remember they married ) to have their children. Michael wanted white children he didn't want them to look like him. He really need more people around him that told him the truth but he was hell bent on being more white. Notice after bad he quit working with Quincy, and it's been known of him to fire people that question him about his health, appearance, and other things that were not of his best interest. Lets face it Michael is so beloved by his f
August 5th, 2009 12:41 PM
What the h... ?!!! I can´t believe that Quincy talked this way about Michael !!!! It´s a shame !!! Michael always said that he was very proud of his origin !!!!! And Just because the disease is rarely doesn´t mean that he can´t get it !!! It´s from his father´s site. Michael had vitiligo !!!Who the h... is quincy to judge !!!???!The only person I believe is Michael !!!I Love you so much my angel !!!
August 4th, 2009 9:10 AM
why do you have to talk all the time about being black or white,about dating white/black women or having white/black kids ?? Is this all your narrow mind can think of ? Are you human beings or only colours ? I am white but you don't sound black,you sound just stupid....
July 31st, 2009 12:53 AM
So what's with all this race issues? What is wrong for a black guy to adopt white kids if he really loves children? You have white people adopting Chinese babies and no one says anything about that! Does that mean those folks want to be yellow? Come on...
As for Quincy, it goes to show he doesn't really know Michael as a person. What an a-hole loaded with BS.