Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to come along and upset everybody.
Interpretation
The future of jazz is unpredictable and could be shaped by unexpected talent from anywhere.
Quincy Jones emphasizes the unpredictability of jazz music and its evolution. He suggests that there are hidden talents in small places, like Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who may emerge and radically transform the genre, highlighting the potential for innovation and surprise in music.
In practice
During a discussion about the evolution of jazz at a music festival.
Just blow in it and sound bad for about a year and then make it sound a little bit better, and you get a little band together, and then you get a few jobs. You take four guys that sound half bad, but if they're 25 percent each, they can give 100 percent, you know?
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
When you produce an album, you're dealing with it theatrically. It has to have a structure, and the inner response to that is that the ear loves it.
You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.
I tell my kids and I tell proteges, always have humility when you create and grace when you succeed, because it's not about you. You are a terminal for a higher power. As soon as you accept that, you can do it forever.
I respected Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra. Those were my heroes, and they were 10 years older than I was.
Many people forget that Jazz, no matter what form it takes, must come from the heart as well as the mind.
And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.
I figured I could do "It's A Man's, Man's, Man's World" because I believe it's the truth.
I grew up on Hip Hop, it's the music I love and it's the music I respect. I respect the culture...that's me.
As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Mahalia Jackson. It was truly spiritual. It made you understand what God was. We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.
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