Quincy JonesWow, surrounded with beauty.

[MC]Okay, good afternoon ladies and gentlemen and may I please invite you all to be seated because the Three Talk is going to begin. Please turn off your mobile or switch it to silence mode.

If you need simultaneous interpretation would you please let us know? We will provide the receivers.

Okay, now without further ado, please join me in welcoming the Chair of the Three on the Bund out Ms. Cherie Liem for her opening remarks.

Cherie LiemThank you. Your excellencies, honorable guests, and friends of Three on the Bund and the GITI group, good afternoon. Welcome and welcome back to Three Talk. I just came back from Beijing where we hosted the inaugural Three Talk in our Beijing Whampoa club on the Financial Street and it was for Dr. Peter Senge, the best selling author of The Fifth Discipline and The Learning Organization and this management guru was talking about how the MBA indoctrination has actually corrupted the people’s values in just focusing on shareholder value or bottom-line or profits.

In human beings we are worth much more than that and we live for much more than that. And actually a close friend of Quincy and Yue-sai and our family was the former speaker here, right here, former President of the World Bank James Wolfensohn, he was here and his while his topic, many of you might have been there, was on Wall Street, World Bank and the Great Wall. He exemplified dedication to the betterment of peoples from all corners of the world. And today it is our deepest honor to welcome Quincy Jones and Yue-sai Kan and actually there is this book An Autobiography of Quincy Jones.

Yue-sai KanWhere did you get that?

Cherie LiemIt is not available here, I searched everywhere actually and I think it needs to be translated to Chinese and I know there are some publishers here so please do that. This is the best autobiography, it is the most touching. Actually if there is one man on this planet who has touched more souls or more hearts and minds of people around the world, who has the best selling music in history, it would be Mr. Jones today. And he is a music legend and a humanitarian and other strength. It was very hard for us to find the right individual, outstanding person who could chair this and I am

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so delighted that it is Yue-sai Kan who is not only a dear friend but an eastern icon, an inspiration. She is not just a beauty but she is inside out and she is an entrepreneur as well as philanthropist. And I think I just want to say one more sentence, yes I was concerned I was going to – I just want to say that she really cherishes life and she has devoted so much to bridging the East and the West. And there is nobody else better to chair the session. May I just turn it over to Yue-sai? Thank you.

Yue-sai KanI just want to stand up for a minute, just so that I can do a little introduction because afterwards really I am going to be sitting down with Quincy. I feel very humbled that I am here in front of my wonderful, wonderful Quincy. I just want to read a little bit of his official bio, which is just a little bit of it okay. “As an impresario in the broadest and most creative sense of the word, Quincy Jones’ career has encompassed the roles of composer, record producer, artist, film producer, arranger, conductor, instrumentalist, TV producer, record company executive, magazine founder, multimedia entrepreneur, and humanitarian”. It is very embarrassing actually. “And as a master inventor of musical hybrids, he has shuffled pop, soul, hip-hop, jazz, classical, African, and Brazilian music into many dazzling fusions traversing virtually every medium including record, live performance, movies, and television.” That is just the first two sentences of his official bio.

[applause]

Quincy JonesI am just getting started.

Yue-sai KanAnd Quincy says he is going to live until an 105, so he has a lot.

Quincy Jones10, 10 yeah.

Yue-sai Kan110, oh 110 sorry, I know he is bigger than life but for me he is my Quincy. He is like my family. I mean just like Bono when I saw him I said, Quincy says hello, he says Quincy is not a friend, Quincy is family. So in a way Quincy has this unbelievable ability to make you part of his family and you are the world. He is the world, right? So anyway today – if you know him better, you would know that he does not sleep actually.

Quincy JonesHe does not what?

Yue-sai KanHe does not sleep. He goes to sleep at 5 in the morning. If I am in New York he calls – I get a call from him at 9 in the morning.

Quincy JonesYou keep me up all night.

Yue-sai Kan

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And he says it is 6 in Los Angles, right. So I said why are you up so early, says I have not gone to sleep yet. So that is Quincy, he is working all the time. I actually have known him for a number of years and the one that introduced me to him was Naomi Campbell. And Naomi said to me if you can do an interview with Quincy, that is good enough, that is good enough, and surely that is good enough.

Quincy JonesFour years later.

Yue-sai KanFour years later, yeah. We have had such a wonderful time. We see each other everywhere, in Los Angeles, in New York. So it is with the greatest pleasure that I am going to – actually this is actually supposed to be a talk. I will start asking some questions. I expect you to participate. To see Quincy in Shanghai is probably once in a lifetime experience. I expect some of you or many of you will have questions for him. And I am going to leave that time for you to ask him questions because I know him better than you know him. So it is your time too okay. I am going to sit down now.

Quincy is today a guest of the Shanghai Film Festival. I am the Chairman of the Celebrity Invitation and he is one of my guests here. This year we have done extremely well thanks to Quincy, I also got Halle Berry, I got Clive Owen, we got Danny Boyle of Slumdog, we have Andie MacDowell. We have all these amazing stars, Isabelle Huppert is coming.

Quincy JonesMy cousin.

Yue-sai KanYour cousin?

Quincy Jones.Peter.

Yue-sai KanOh, Peter Fonda is his cousin. Peter Fonda just left today and we have all these people here. So because he is a guest of the Shanghai Film Festival, I would like to suggest that we ask him a few questions about his movie career. I know that Quincy, you have scored 38 films. He has scored 38 films, how many Oscars, how many nominations at least you got?

Quincy JonesSeven.

Yue-sai KanSeven nominations. I did not even know all of these things actually and now your role as a film producer; how many have you produced?

Quincy JonesWell, basically the one with Steven Spielberg, The Color Purple, that is how we discovered Oprah Winfrey, Whoopie.

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Yue-sai KanThe Color Purple got 11 Oscar nominations with Steven Spielberg. So even in the movie industry, he is extremely well known and the most interesting for me is that he even produced the Oscar one year and that was one of the highest rated Oscars ever produced. So what was it like?

Quincy JonesI will try anything once. Films, inauguration, the millennium, anything. But it is a consistent challenge really and I love to live dangerously, really do, and kind of take the chances. I think the bottom line is if you make a step with defeat, you retreat and you are cautious and reticent and careful. And if you make the step a victory, I mean if you make a step of victory, yes, you take giant steps next time. And next time even if you fall down, and after a while nothing scares you and I am at that stage now where nothing scares me. I know it is crazy but nothing scares me.

Yue-sai KanI know that he discovered actually more than Oprah Winfrey. He discovered also Will Smith. Would you like to know about Oprah Winfrey, how he discovered her? She is the most powerful woman in America today.

Quincy JonesShe was on a show called Chicago AM and I was forced to go up and testify for Michael Jackson in a plagiarism case by Walter Yetnikoff, the head of Sony records. And we were in the middle of casting the film and my heart was really not into it. I had to go to testify because the people that were making the charges were not really good people. They had done it with the Bee Gees too. And while I was there, I could not sleep and I turned on the TV at 9:15 and I see this lady and I say to myself, if she can act, I did not know her name, if she can act she is Sofia and I enquired around in Chicago and I asked a few friends like Merri Dee [ph], another TV hostess, who is that lady on the news program? And they said the name was Oprah. And I had never heard that name before in my life and spelt backwards it is Harpo who she’s playing Harpo in the film. And I said God is on my side so maybe we have got a shot here. There is some divinity involved and sure enough we flew her out. I sent a tape back to Steven Spielberg and Alice Walker. I have a film one day, I am going to be back many times, I love this city to pieces, don’t you? Wooh!

[applause]

Shanghai, my God, it is just unbelievable, I never sleep because I know her. But she is the same in New York, or Dubai, or in the Bahamas, [Unclear] like me. And anyway, so Oprah, her name was not even on the poster for the film, just Whoopie Goldberg. And this year for her birthday in my screening room I have the whole poster for the film and I had it put on there for her birthday and she was like a 12-year-old girl. So she went a long ways real fast. She got $35,000 for the film, no name, no credits at all and boy did she go the distance.

The same with Will. We did a Fresh Prince of Bel-Air in 1990 when television circles were scared to death of rappers, you can imagine that. And I said of all the rappers, Will Smith is the least dangerous boy. I will

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show you who to worry about [Unclear], 50 cent, ODB. It is not Will. And Will has become the biggest star in the world. I cannot believe it. He really is. He is so smart and he is such a decent human being, and I will make this short but I think the rules of our business – I have only been in this 63 years, is you treat your success, I mean your creativity with humility and your success with grace. You must have grace. And ones that do not show grace – it is not about you, if you think you deserve the adulation and the money, you are out of your mind. And if you think you do not deserve it, you are fooling somebody, you are crazy too. You are a terminal for higher power, and I mean, I believe that from the bottom of my soul. Because I write music, I feel that, I have got lot of help up there and it is the way that Will lives, it is the way Oprah lives too and it is nice you know. And this lady lives that way too.

I know I am lucky enough to be with the Nobel doctors of Stockholm and they are the ones that promised me 110. And don’t make up your mind until 109. [laughter] And they said the key words, I did not realize before, they said we are all self-contained emotional machines. And your thoughts – we do not have any programs on this and everything. It all happens here and here. If your heart and mind is okay, they can fix the rest, but they say the key words, positive words are love, laugh, live, and give. And if you have the mean thoughts, darkness and everything, you will get sick. It is strange, I have learnt so much, I will shut up.

Yue-sai KanNo, no do not shut up. Do not shut up, you are not supposed to shut up. You are absolutely right, well? We have a wonderful example of Cherie, she really gives a lot. This is managed by her foundation. This is non-profit. What you are getting all these talks is non-profit and she does far more than just giving the Three Talk. So I am a big admirer of this lady too.

Quincy JonesMe too, and [applause] one of her dear, dear friends Kim Samuel Johnson who literally 5 years ago, she is from Canada, very successful family up there, she asked me, looked at me straight in the eye at the government reception for me, would you adopt me? Because her family was having health problems and she has lost all of her family now and I said absolutely. Legally adopt her friend and she sent a note to her. She said, she calls her, her sister. And I was so shocked and so pleased, the note made it safely because I traveled last night, it was a little wrinkled. But she told me about your being at Harvard and everything.

Cherie LiemYes, actually Kim Samuel, she is another amazing individual and she is my sort of a western sister. So if you have adopted her.

Quincy JonesYes, and she was a spokesman for the World Economic Forum on Social Entrepreneurship. She works in my foundation now and she is an amazing little woman. She is a little tiny but she is so sweet, so sweet.

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Beautiful blonde, actually we hosted the Special Olympics and she played a big role for the Special Olympics in Shanghai. She is also on that Board.

Quincy JonesShe loves you.

Yue-sai KanHe composed the song.

Cherie LiemYes of course, we were here together at that time but Kim could not make that time.

Yue-sai KanYeah, first of all, Quincy was the creative consultant to the Olympics. And then he was asked to compose the song for the Special Olympics last year. So he did a wonderful song called woxing nixing, what is it in English? I can, you can?

Quincy JonesYue-sai Kan [Yes, I Can].

Yes, my Yue-sai Kan,Yes, my Yue-sai Kan,All the others think they are hotbut we all know that they are not.Yes I know, yes I know, Yue-sai Kan.

Yue-sai KanOkay in China, I know that many of you are not expats and you are from China, you are really actually very, very famous for two things, the song We Are the World and then also the producer Michael Jackson’s best selling album, Thriller. Well, let us talk about The World, you know The World, I am talking about?

[Female]Yeah, yeah.

Yue-sai KanYou do right, ok, good. So how did you get all these people? How did that actually happen?

Quincy JonesYou have to be out of your mind. [Laughter] No, that is not true. I had done a record just before we did Thriller with Donna Summer and we had a song called State of Independence and there was one segment in there for 16 bars and as I said nothing scares me, and I said I want to get the greatest voices I ever heard in my life to sing this Chorus. This was 3 years before we did We Are the World. And I had Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, and Stevie Wonder and about 30 of them also Dionne Warwick and Christopher Cross etcetera so when Harry Belafonte called up Kim Kregnan [ph] who is the manager for Lionel Richie. He said Live Aid which Bono was involved with all the people in Europe. He said they are doing all these things for Africa, nobody here is doing anything. We

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should go on tour. I said, no way are we going to take all these people on tour, 46 people, stars on tour. And so I suggested that we will do one record and have 12 hours of that so we do not have to go to the hospital. And we scheduled a session after the American Music Awards and said everybody be on time, try and they came in one by one. And I asked Michael to be on the microphone at 10 o’clock to do the demo so they could hear the song and everything. God was with us again.

When we started off, it was not something that looked so – we got a lot of people [Unclear] saying all that self-aggrandizement and stuff – nonsense! These things you will never know when they are going to work. When we first started we had Lionel Richie, Kenny Rogers, Dan Akroyd, and LaToya, that is all we had. Now do you know it is going to be a success, please. And then bit by bit, yibu yibu, as they say in China, meiyou wenti. And so we kept on going and believing this. On the parallel path, I am trying to get Lionel to write the song, he wanted to do it with Stevie at first; I said no, we will not get it until next Christmas. So I said Michael was doing nothing and he would work with Michael. They would sit there reminiscing about Motown and partying and looking at the chimpanzees and thing. And I said man I need a song, we got 42 superstars here.

That is where the thing about Check Your Egos at the Door came from. Because I said guys I need a song, come on now. And we got the song and everybody showed up. It was amazing because those words were not necessary because when they came in the door and Billy Joel was seeing Bob Dylan and Ray Charles and dadadadadda, and Willie Nelson and all these people, all the egos stayed at the door. And they had a – what is the comic strip there, Gary Trudeau, the comic strip, yes. He did 12 comic strips on it and they had a whole thing, I said what is going on? Why are we so late? And they said we have got a problem, your letter [ph] caused a problem and where did he go? I need a check for my ego. They had to check him at the door and it was really silly but it was not necessary. They came there with their hearts, they tried to do something for the people in Ethiopia and they gave. Bruce Springsteen came in a Mack, a truck. Diana Ross came in a limousine. They just came to do the best they could. They stayed until the next morning 11 o’clock and they gave it up and it worked you know.

Yue-sai KanJust one [unclear] as a question, that was a while back, right? Do the artists act like that now, today?

Quincy JonesIt is a little bit different. It is a little bit different now. Hip hop was not in then, that was 1985. And I was through the whole evolution of hip hop you know. That was more like ‘92 before it really settled in, in the mainstream. But these were old pros you know, people I had worked with for years and years and years, Paul Simon 45 years ago, as Tom and Jerry, Diana with the Supremes. Today it is a different attitude, I must say. A lot are my friends, but they are serious entrepreneurs. They sell vodka and perfume and I am king and legend and all that stuff, but I do not sit to try to judge things. I have worked with all of them and they just sell a tribute album of all my tunes and you cannot spank their hands you know. They

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are doing what they think they had to do. They were shut out of a society, they started their own society. And the society took over the world. Because I have got another idea from them now, we got a consortium which we are trying to put a real strong curriculum in the schools.

America is the only country in the world without a Minister of Culture and we have got to end that. And I travel more than anybody in the planet, including Condoleezza and Cheney, please, 500,000 miles in the Middle East for the last 56 years and we are considered isolationists because 11% of Americans have passports, only 6% use it. That is why I congratulate every American in this audience, from the young ones and the elders that they go and learn another language and another culture. It is very important these days to…

Cherie LiemHow many Americans here? Please raise your hands?

Quincy JonesWhat?

Yue-sai KanThose are Americans.

Quincy JonesOkay, okay, but it is important. So we have put together a consortium to put together a curriculum so they understand their own music because guess what? All the countries almost in the world I go and I hear American music. And they push their indigenous music aside and they are playing American music and Americans are the ones that know the rappers, they do not know, I will give you $5000 if you find a rapper who could tell you who Duke Ellington or John Coltrane is or Ella Fitzgerald or Charlie Parker, and that is sad, it really is. It is like the Russians, they have studied Rimsky-Korsakov, Stravinsky but they know all about our music. And I have lived in France. We would not have jazz without France, on the slavery side and their home country. It is astounding to see what is going on and that is why I am addicted to traveling. I am glad that my little sister does some of the travelling with us.

Yue-sai KanDifferent mothers.

Quincy JonesShe will be, yeah, a little bit, you know.

Yue-sai KanQuincy loves women.

Quincy JonesLoves what?

Yue-sai KanYou love women.

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That is for sure. [Laughter]

Yue-sai KanAnd he…

Quincy JonesWo de piaoliang baobei.

Yue-sai KanDid you hear what he just said? Repeat that again.

Quincy JonesWo de piaoliang baobei.

Yue-sai KanDo you guys know what he just said? Wo de piaoliang baobei. My beautiful baby. And then you know there is a part of the human anatomy that you love very much, which part is it?

Quincy JonesOh, do not do that, please, that is terrible. But I guess…

Yue-sai KanThat is not so terrible.

Quincy JonesIt is not? Pigu!

Yue-sai KanPigu.

Quincy JonesLook at her. They have such an inclination to teach musicians all over the world, Holland, everywhere. The first thing they teach, some of the bad words first, Japan, same everywhere in the world. I cannot even say hello in Dutch, I know all the bad words. I do not know why they misinform us like that.

Yue-sai KanYou know Michael Jackson, you worked with Michael Jackson, and the record Thriller was the best selling. How many millions were sold?

Quincy Jones104.

Yue-sai KanWould you like to know what it was like working with Michael?

ChorusYes.

Quincy JonesWell, you know, I had in the beginning we had some problems, not with Motown in general because Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder wanted to

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work with me over the years, even now what is going on, but Barry who is my closest friend, he lives across the hill from me now in Bel Air, he always thought I was too jazzy to work with Michael. And Michael with Stevie and Marvin Gaye, they wanted to break out of the mould of the formula for Motown and I understand that. It was okay and when we did the Wiz in 1979, Michael said, “Could you help me find a producer? I am going to do my solo album on Epic.” And I said, “Michael I do not want to hear about that now, we have got to pre-record all of these songs and you do not even have a song in the picture.” So I had to fight to get you [Unclear] anybody see the Wiz here?

You know what I am saying? Know what I am saying? And so we got that done and I started to watch him. I met him at 12 at first, and I started to see him, he knew everybody’s words, everybody’s dialogue, every dance step, every lyric, everything. I had never seen somebody so focused. I had never worked with him before. And then one day we were rehearsing at a hotel in Brooklyn, Sidney Lumet, the director who was blocking the principals and the Scarecrow and the Lion and Michael pulled up little pieces of paper out of his chest and said Confucius blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, Kierkegaard, whatever. Then he said blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, Socrates [soh-KRAY-teez]. I said who the hell is Socrates [soh-KRAY-teez]? And then I got it. Okay then he did it two days and I said Michael it is Socrates [SOH-kruh-teez] you know, you cannot – if he gets used to it he will say it over and over again. And he looked at me like a deer in a headlights. He said really? I said really, it is Socrates. And at that moment I said, you know what I would like to take a chance on a shot at doing an album with you. And he said really? Again and he went and told the record people. Again, they said Quincy it is too jazzy, Gamble and Huff should do it.

And so he came back to me crying and saying they did not want me to do the record. I said Michael don’t worry about a thing. He and his managers fought for it and I’m very glad to say he can never be bigger. We fixed that. And you know, but again you are in the hands of a higher power and I believe that they are leading you and all three albums – the first album Off The Wall saved the jobs of a lot of the sales people at the record company. And then the second, we had no idea it would happen and anyone that tells you that they know that the album was going to sell like Thriller, they are telling a big fat lie. It is not true. You just do what you believe in and pray that it all works, that’ s all.

Yue-sai KanWhat do you – well, he has just got these concerts in London, it is delayed again.

Quincy JonesIt is July, and I was in London when he was there and they now said Phil Anschutz’s Company, AEG and they announced the concerts and in four hours 50 concerts sold out. So if he does his homework and he is a good boy, he will have an amazing comeback. And I pray for that. God knows he needs it.

Yue-sai KanDo you think he will ever come back?

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Quincy JonesHoney, I am not God, you know, [unclear] that is in the hands of again of the divinity.

Yue-sai KanYeah, we are talking about jazz and I know that you loved working with Frank Sinatra.

Quincy JonesOh, yeah.

Yue-sai KanWould you tell us a story?

Quincy JonesProbably my most enjoyable and rewarding moments was when I was working in Paris for a record company and studying with Nadia Boulanger because Nadia Boulanger said, jazz musicians – I started in clubs at 13 with Ray Charles - she said I have to deal with you differently because the classical students I can discipline them but you are already corrupted. You have been working with Ray Charles. And jazz musicians shack up with music first, and then they court it and marry it later. She was a great lady, Leonard Bernstein and Stravinsky’s mentor etcetera. And one day we get a call – I am working in this record company in Paris - they said that Grace Kelly’s office called from Monaco and Mr. Sinatra would like me to bring, my house orchestra was 55 musicians, down to Monaco at the Sporting Club.

We were on that train in a New York Minute. And we just played with him that night only six words transpired in 1958. I did not hear anything in 4 years and 4 years later I get a phone call and it says, hey Q – that is the first time anybody ever called me Q, but I would know that voice anywhere. Said I have just heard the arrangements you did for Basie on In Other Words, which used to be a waltz [sings]. Johnnie Mathis did it like that. And he says that is the way I want to do it. [Sings] Four four, you know. He said would you consider doing an album with Basie and I said, is the Pope a Catholic, are you kidding? I will be there in a minute and I was. He was in Kaua’i directing None but the Brave. This was his military army picture and I wrote the arrangements of ‘Fly Me to the Moon’ in a hotel room in Reno and we ended up having Buzz Aldrin play that on the moon. It is just that life is amazing and I have worked with him from that time until the day he left. He left me this ring which I never take off which is his family crest which he wore for 40 years and I have never met – because Frank is the kind of guy; he has no gray. He either loves you or he will run over you in a Mack truck in reverse. Nothing in between. People worked with him, they played with him. I was blessed to work and play with him until the day he left. And he is one of the greatest human beings I ever met in my life and one of the greatest singers and Basie, every night we could not wait to get to work.

Anybody heard Sinatra at the Sands – that album? Anyway, that is the album that is the evidence of how much fun we had. And he used to tell us every night, Quincy live every day like it is your last and one day you

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will be right. And I feel sorry for people who do not drink because when they wake up in the morning that is as good as they are going to feel all day. [laughter] He was a wild one. That was my man. Well, that was like going to another planet being working with him.

Yue-sai KanIf I have to ask you to name your top five favorite artists then who would they be?

Quincy JonesImpossible.

Yue-sai KanI know they are impossible.

Quincy JonesBillie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Duke, Basie, Ray Charles, Aretha, Michael Jackson, Paul Simon, Tony Bennett. It’s impossible. It really is, it’s like my kids, they are all great, they are all different; they are all great you know. And LaVern Baker all, everybody was – I have been lucky enough to work with everybody in the last half century in American music. And it is a blessing, you know you do not have anything to do with it. They call me ”Ghetto Gump”, instead of Forrest Gump.

Yue-sai KanGhetto Gump. Quincy, you know the history of Quincy? I mean he really started from nowhere in Chicago and he showed me a scar that he has in his arm – but you have other places, right? That is not…

Quincy JonesYeah.

Yue-sai KanAnd how old were you?

Quincy JonesSeven years old. I went on the wrong block. Chicago is a 5 million black people in the ghetto during the depression. As you all know, that is university of the gangsters, Al Capone, Dillinger, Giacomo, and my father worked for – he was a carp and they built homes for the Jones boys, one of the most notorious black gangsters in the history of America; policy racket and five-and-dime stores, really good-looking intelligent guys. And Capone found out that they had made $100 million in a year in the 30’s and he ran them out of town in 1943. My daddy came to the drugstore, got my brother and I, put us on a Trailway bus to Bremerton, Washington to get out of town. We still wanted to be gangsters. I was serious, because if you see machine guns everyday and you see big piles of money and dead bodies all over the place, you know whatever you see that is what you want to be. And that is the way we were all back then and we were doing everything you could do wrong, like the burning down dance halls in Bremerton, Washington.

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My daddy worked at the shipyard and robbing stores everything and we broke in an armoury one day. It was our recreation hall, we were in an army camp. And we heard there was some lemon pie coming and we had the inside on everything. Lemon pie, 11-years-old, big deal, right. We ate up the pies, ice cream and had a pie fight and broke into rooms afterwards. And I broke into the supervisor's room and I saw his piano over the corner. I almost closed the door and something inside said, idiot, go back in that room. And thank God because when I went over to that piano and every blood cell and everything in my body said this is what you will do the rest of your life and it saved my life really.

Yue-sai KanMusic saved your life.

Quincy JonesThe music, absolutely. And I stayed after school and played all the brass instruments and everything and one thing, yibu yibu again.

Yue-sai KanYibu yibu.

Quincy JonesAnd it did change. It was sort of a chance to walk into the light out of the dark.

Yue-sai KanWhat a story! What a really amazing story, right?

Quincy JonesIt saved my life.

Yue-sai Kan…from there to here. Quincy, with the Internet I think the business of music has changed tremendously. What do you think is the future of music industry, it certainly has changed.

Quincy JonesWell, [Unclear] our numbers go all the way back to 3500 BC in Egypt, the permutation of zeros and ones that is not even close to, that’s the same year the sphinx was built. Thank God one of my closest friends is Alan Kay who created the Mac I, Mac II overlapping windows and icons, everything else and took me to Silicon Valley early. He was also with the Palo Alto Research Center and he I think is our Einstein of today and I do not think it, I know it. We go to Gates’s conventions, he takes over, he goes to Silicon Valley, Roger Mach [ph] in the electronic arts he takes over, MIT he takes over and he told me about the Internet and I thought he was smoking Koolaid. Everybody in the world has got – how many people here don’t have laptops? You do not have a laptop, what happened? [laughter]

Everywhere in the world, I have never seen anything you know, and there is agrarian and then industrial revolution and then information age but he told me about it and I could not believe it. He said here is what is going to

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happen and he took me to Silicon Valley and so I have been on top of the technology all the time. And to answer to your question about the record business it is going to take technology to save us too and I am on the board of MIT so I think the record business as we know it is finished and the genie will never go back in the bottle. It is 95% to 98% piracy all over the world.

I went to the House of Commons last month with King Carlos in Spain and everywhere, Middle East and so that part is over. We are going to have to discover a brand-new revenue stream for music because I am concerned about the young kids and composers and everything that they will not have a profession. I was just in Texas at the South by Southwest and 1900 bands there they do not know where to go, they are lost because there is no way, they do not know how to sell records to make money because a single record it is only a 30-second spot for a package but the problem is most of the young kids do not know how to make four or five or six or seven hits on the record so they take one here, two there, do that and compilations. On my board is Alan Kay and Shawn Fanning who started all this with Napster which is not only P-to-P but it is full access. He is in SNOCAP and I am on SNOCAP board with him and he has got something called acoustic fingerprints to trace the first 10 notes that are going in there. But we are going to figure it out, I promise you. And we have to just put all our heads together. Any of you would have any ideas man we are wide-open because the revenue stream has to change. Cell phones I think is the answer, I really do. That is the end goal anyway. That is the way everybody else, you have to go, you know so we have got a friend in Beijing, Gregory Shea with Blackberry. I met the iTunes guys the other night and hopefully I will see China Mobile. There is only 520 million cell phones in China, so we will see. 5% of that will be still be cool.

Yue-sai KanYou know Q was really surprised when we did a little research. We found out the top 10 Chinese musicians in this country sell like somewhere between 300,000 to a million records. That is a really small number.

Quincy JonesIt is terrible.

Yue-sai KanThe biggest is a million so it is really small number.

Quincy JonesAnd the Middle East it is the same way that they all have come through my house just the last 6 months everywhere; from Russia, Middle East, Africa, Latin America everywhere. So it is the exact same situation everywhere in the world and that is why we have got to do something now. And to put songwriters, their children, they want to go to school, they want to eat, pay the rent for their homes and so forth and it is not right to take their creations and have them starve to death. It is just not right; it is unethical. It really is because they would not do it if they worked a day, they would want to get paid and this is the same thing. I know it seems like it is nothing but it is.

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And one of my really number one priorities is to make a film called ‘The day all the music stopped’. We only could do it in a film because the world takes it for granted, music. I do not think anybody in this audience could handle 2 weeks, let alone a month with not one sound of music. You could not because we are so used to having it all the time but it is your soul food and you can’t taste it, you can’t see it, you can’t touch it, you can’t smell it but it is your soul food. I am telling you it is part of our existence. I think water and music would be the last things to go on this planet. And so I want to make a movie to try to make an example of what it feels like to smother you with music the first 50% and with a good director and a good script, and then at 50% cut it all off; not one note of music on radio, TV, iPods nowhere and see the world without music.

How many people in this room could survive 1 month without one note of music? I do not think so. It is such an important part but I think we take it for granted and I would like to dramatize what it would be without having music because it is important and it just floats from century to century in the universe. The universe is 450 cycles. It is no accident that symphony orchestras tune up to A, which is 440 cycles. It’s got to be a voice of God and that is why we appreciate it and it enhances our lives and everything we do, it enhances our lives, everything; food, love, everything. It is the best thing that ever happened you know.

Yue-sai KanWhat advice do you have for the young people who are going to the music business today then?

Quincy JonesWhat?

Yue-sai KanWell, what advice do you have for young people who wanted to go into the music business today?

Quincy JonesTo understand that it is about soul and science. It is absolute along with mathematics, but it is the only thing that engages the left and right brain simultaneously; the emotions and the intellect. And it is powerful stuff, it is powerful. It can heal autism and dyslexia, all kinds of things; it is a powerful, powerful, powerful element.

And I would advise the young kids, learn your science, learn your craft. You cannot be a great piano player unless you go through the boring parts of learning all the scales and how to change fingers between the second and fourth steps and seven and eight and so forth. It is a science like anything else and you have to put a lot of work into your science. So I have a Cuban pianist now that, he just defected from Cuba, Alfredo Rodriguez is – he played last night, what is the date?

Yue-sai KanThe day before last.

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Sunday. He came from Cuba. I heard him in Montreal 2 years ago, 20 years old; he is 23 now. He defected from Cuba and I sent my assistant to pick him up, in Mexico he got arrested. The police heard him play and DROVE him to the border. [laughter] One of the greatest piano players I have ever heard in my entire life.

Yue-sai KanMaybe we will bring him for the Expo.

Quincy JonesAbsolutely, I promise you I will bring him over here. You will not believe this kid. He also orchestrates for symphony orchestra and composes for symphony orchestra. He is at my house half of the time and in my assistant’s house. He sleeps on his couch now. He played at the Playboy Festival last Sunday blew 13,000 people away. And he is just without a doubt one of the greatest musicians I have known. His father is the biggest singer in Cuba. Alfredo Rodriguez - you will hear that name like you hear Lang Lang.

Yue-sai KanI like Lang Lang.

Quincy JonesThis is no joke.

Yue-sai KanOkay, this is my last question because I want to give you guys a little bit of time to ask Quincy. What makes a great song? Is it this music or is it the lyric?

Quincy JonesThe melody.

Yue-sai KanThe melody.

Quincy JonesThe melody is the voice of God. We have technique for counterpoint, for harmony and everything else but there is no technique for melody, it comes straight from God. And it is clothed by the lyrics to get to you and so forth, but the power is in the melody, the melody is the most powerful thing you can imagine.

There is prosody and the great lyricists know how to write literal songs, like I want to be around Johnny Mercer, I think one of the greatest lyricists ever lived. Johnny Mercer, ‘Blues in the Night’ and all that. But he wrote ‘Moon River’ – anybody who know what ‘Moon River’ means? No, ‘waiting round the bend, my Huckleberry friend’, you don’t even know what he is talking about. But it is prosody and it drives the melody and it makes you remember it. The `Days of Wine and Roses’, you don’t know what that’s about or the ‘Shadow of Your Smile’, Johnny wrote all of those songs, Oscar winners. But the melody is the power and that there is only 12 notes that all of us have been using, all the past 400-500 years and

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beyond that in folk music. And until we find the 13th, nobody is going to reinvent music. There is 12 notes, you should learn what everybody did. And I advise all young kids, do your homework and do your work. Success, the dictionary is the only place where you see success precede work and that is alphabetical.

Yue-sai KanOkay, questions. Yes?

[Male]Mr. Jones, what you accomplished in your life is a dream for many, many people and you want to be a centurion in the future and we expect you will be a centurion.

Yue-sai Kan110.

[Male]Yes that is right. So the question is do you have anything else to accomplish in your life?

Quincy JonesI’m just beginning, man. Now trust me, I’m just beginning, I promise you.

[Male]And the second question is that you were nominated seven times for Academy Awards.

Quincy JonesThe what?

Yue-sai KanYou were nominated for seven times for the Academy.

[Male]…and lot of legends in the past, they were nominated and never won the Oscars.

Quincy JonesI have got an Oscar.

Yue-sai KanHe got an Oscar.

Quincy JonesAnd a humanitarian and that meant more to me than music.

[Male]That is right. What is your comment on that, I mean the Oscar phobia in recent times?

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The Oscar, when you get nominated for an Oscar you are in five already, you have been through 1800 or 1400. You know if you don’t have a chance when you look at your competition. You will know, even you know when it is yours. And it’s been taken from me two times, ‘In Cold Blood’, and the Wiz, no, three times, and ‘In the Heat of the Night’, that was ours because everything won that year. But it’s okay man, you know, I didn’t do it for Oscars and I will be back.

[Male]Thank you very much.

Quincy JonesIt is, when you get in that hall you want it though.

[Female]Okay, thank you please. I wonder if you could tell us about your foundation, how you started and what it actually does.

Quincy JonesOkay, we have done everything. We are partners with Harvard. Now Colin Powell. I was co-chairman of his America's Promise while he was in office which was about mentorship, and J. Winston of Harvard, so we often all worked together before we worked with also Chip Lyons who is with UNICEF. He is with the Buffet-Gates foundation. We build homes and hospitals in Cambodia and Angkor Wat; I have adopted 15 families there. We have worked with the favelas in Brazil for 54 years. And we are going to do a film in February for the Katrina and the favelas because they both are in trouble. And I visit the favelas every year for the 54 years; we are going to do an IMAX film there this year. In fact the president of IMAX is in town. I had dinner with him last night.

And Mandela I have been with 38 years, I do not even know where to start there, to co-host meetings for the HIV kids. We built hundred homes of the Orange Farm. 2004 we had a concert at Circus Maximus and I got a call from Hani Masri who is an [foreign language] who is from Palestine. Their friends Julius [Unclear], Shimon Peres in Israel, and I was impressed that they were friends, and they said they wanted me to be the third partner to do a concert for the distressed children in the worst cities in the world. And so I immediately replied. We went to see Queen Rania Al Abdullah, on the border with Queen Rania with Cisco NetAid, for education, and that’s too dangerous there, Jerusalem is too dangerous, so we decided the Coliseum had as much bloodshed as anywhere, but we can at least get the artists to come there. And so we did a concert at Circus Maximus with 750,000 people; Oprah, Angelina Jolie, Norah Jones, Santana and it is funny Oprah was very worried that they did not have enough security there and I said, okay let me handle this. I’ve been over here a long time.

I got Simon Shaheen, Rifat Sultana [ph] from Nablus and Kazem Al Sahir and Khaled from Algeria. We don’t need to do it with guns, we’ll do it with love, and we did not have one problem. We had everybody there, Norah Jones, Alicia Keys, and we built centers all over these places - Kigali, Addis Ababa, Asmara, Freetown, Nablus, and Kabul - with technology. So it is

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with all kinds of things, but now we are focused on children. I mean the children are the future because, when Colin Powell, he’s one of my closest friends, he said, when a 12-year-old child comes to you with bombs wrapped or explosives wrapped around their bodies instead of hope and love in their hearts, we are doing something wrong. And that and the RPGs, and the IEDs and the Al Qaeda has changed, he said, there will ever be another general’s war, it is all foot soldiers now. And I go to Iraq. I go to everywhere in the world all the time and there is no joke over that, man.

Yue-sai KanYou have the mic.

[Male]Yeah, I have the mic. Yeah, but you know I want to ask you something is what you know because yo, I have stayed in Shanghai many times. I like R&B hip hop many times. I just want to talk what somebody never die because if you listen to American east or west the Probsthain [ph], Tupac Shakur never die, Marvin Gaye never die, Bob Marley never die. You know Bobby Brown is my love all the time, Bobby you know I love your music all the time. I can sing something give everybody.

Quincy JonesWhat?

[Male]I can sing something give everybody.

Quincy JonesWhat did he say?

[Male]I want to sing some R&B give everybody. Is it okay?

Yue-sai KanYou can.

[Male][Singing]

We come to the Quincy Jones in ShanghaiCheck it outBut I can’t stay hereWant to give everybody knowOld school check it outI love you Bobby.

Quincy JonesXie xie, wo de gemenr. Xiexie.

[applause]

[Male]

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[Unclear] Tupac Shakur, yo.

Yue-sai KanGive your mic to someone. No, the lady over there.

Quincy JonesBeautiful, man. Meiyou wenti.

Yue-sai KanYou know that Quincy was the highest nominated – let me speak in English – he had more Grammy nominations in the history of the Grammy than anyone in the world. How many?

Quincy Jones79.

Yue-sai Kan79. And how many did you get?

Quincy Jones27.

Yue-sai KanYou lost how many times?

Quincy Jones52. [laughter, applause] Thank you, brother. Beautiful, man.

Peggy LiuHi. My name is Peggy Liu. I am from a non-profit called JUCCCE and we focus on clean energy, greening China, and I had the great pleasure of working with Yue-sai’s makeup line last week to launch her lighting program for children. What I want to take this opportunity to ask you and maybe Yue-sai is, Greening of China is at the heart of so many things; our economy, our health, it affects worldwide economy and health. And I am wondering by having you two together, is there a way to duplicate what you did with ‘We are the world’ and bring together Chinese celebrities and create the same type of enthusiasm for what you did with Ethiopia but for Greening of China. Is there some sort of thing that we can do?

Quincy JonesMeiyou wenti, we can do that.

Yue-sai KanMeiyou wenti.

Quincy JonesWe are going to do a lot of things together, trust me. And I told you previously, nothing in the world makes my soul smile more than seeing cultures that come together like this because all of my life I have seen that when they come together, we cannot even speak the same language. And see them come together and mix the cultures together, that is what we are doing in Brazil and I am dying to do that with all the instruments, the

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bill pipes, the three-hole pipes in China. You have this one and you have this one there and we tried to mix that up in the Special Olympics and the games. That is what it is all about it is coming together. They have tried this old-style of, I do not agree with you, I am going to kill you, it has got to go. You know the economic slump, God says you are all together did he not? Everybody got hurt.

I was in Cairo and had four birthday parties there and the First Lady of Iceland was there and she said they got it. I said I did not even know Iceland had any money. But everybody, it is a wake-up call – they can say what they want about Kennedy and Reagan they did not bring the wall down, man communications brought that wall down. Gorbachev1 is like my brother and has been for a long time. The communications now, I talked to Gorbachev. Thirty years ago what provoked you to defect from Russia? He said, because I saw on TV, I saw Roland Petit in Paris and I said I can do that. I saw the ABT in New York said I can do that so did Goodnoff and so did Nureyev and that is what is happening. In the old days Genghis Khan, Napoleon, Waterloo and all that stuff you see it all on 6 o’clock news you’d have a heart attack or slavery or holocaust now it is all about Anna Nicole Smith and Paris Hilton all this kind of nonsense.

Communications is so powerful today and it has unified us in many ways and so day by day by day by day I know in my lifetime I have seen the jet plane, television. We did the first television shows 1951. I did not even know what it was. And then we get into fiber-optic and the fax machine and the satellite and PCs and so forth. The communications is powerful now. I do not know a kid under any economic circumstances does not have a cell phone if not FOUR. And you saw one dude over here raised his hand when I asked about laptops and so communication is powerful. They communicate on another level. I know all these guys with MySpace, YouTube and Sergey Brin we have dinner with him three times a week, you know, Google. I mean whoever thought 20 years ago that this little guy looks like a high school dropout from Russia and who has got the company worth a $119 billion, give me a break.

Facebook is going to be our partner in this record thing too. And it is just you just have to keep your minds open and your souls open and your hearts open and let us grow together and help each other. I mean everybody is conflicting. The conflicts have got to go because communications will not allow it number 1. And I feel very positive, I’m a criminal optimist about the worst times like Dickens's ‘The best and worst of times’ we going to get through this and probably be better off than we ever were before.

[Female]With such a versatile and passionate career with what attitude do you confront setbacks and disappointments?

Quincy JonesI did not hear the question.

Yue-sai Kan1 Although the speaker clearly says ‘Gorbachev’ both here and in the next sentence, from the context it seems likely that he is actually referring to Mikhail Baryshnikov. --- ed.

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What attitude do you have when you are confronted with setbacks and disappointments?

Quincy JonesWhat, what?

Yue-sai KanWhat attitude do you have?

[Female]With what attitude do you confront setbacks?

Quincy JonesGet back up and do it again. You know that is all. You have always got, the cliché about the path of fear and love. You cannot deal with fear or darkness. You have got to deal with light and love. And I would not be here if I did not do that.

Yue-sai KanYou know Quincy is really a conduit to many, many good things. In fact, tell them about the Obama story. Obama was not even running for president yet.

Quincy JonesRight, the first meeting we had was in my kitchen in California, March 2005, Oprah brought. He was just sitting here at the kitchen table, I am here and there is Barrack and there is Michelle. And we were talking about, this time that Oprah the poll showed that she would get 60% of the votes for president. Oprah is a powerful woman in the States, we all know that right. And so in a way she was kind of passing the mantle to him but I did not understand their plan very clearly at that time. And I had to really interject some really unacceptable news especially with Michelle and I said, well you know I have a very close relationship because I did produce the inauguration concert in the Americas and a millennium for the Clintons and I have been to the Lincoln’s bedroom. It is like my family almost Chelsea and all and I am afraid I may come out with Hillary, why she was not happy with that. But I went to the primaries in Iowa and I asked is Mr. Obama here because she knows it is love and is not kidding, in my lifetime I never thought I would see an African-American President, never. [applause] And he is doing a damn good job because he is already telling the truth and it is ironic my daughter knows, she is an actress on The Office…

Yue-sai KanRashida Jones.

Quincy JonesShe is dating his speechwriter now Jon Favreau.

Yue-sai KanShe is dating the speechwriter of Obama.

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Yes and the speech he just made in the Middle East, in Normandy, and all that he is the one that wrote that one. The point is he is doing some things that are unconventional, out of the box which we need. We need [Unclear] Zimbabwe and there was something about $73 million bailout for somebody, even Hugo Chavez. And we have got to do that to open up our minds and souls and not take that staunch attitude that we have been taking ever since. Normandy is over. That is not going to work anymore. It is a new world and we have to try to acclimate our minds to it and try to find a different way to solve problems. I have been to every country on the planet. I feel at home everywhere in the world. I can say two or three words in 15 languages – pigu.

Yue-sai KanPigu. Rashida Jones is in a couple of very popular movies and was that in People Magazine she was voted one of the 100 most beautiful women in the world.

Quincy JonesYes.

Yue-sai KanShe is an actress.

Quincy JonesYes, her mother is Peggy Lipton, yeah.

Yue-sai KanPeggy Lipton, a very, very beautiful girl and Quincy tells me that when you mix black with white so it is beautiful.

Quincy JonesOh no, not anything. Global gumbo, I mean the global gumbo is all over the place and my family – I see Japanese and Brazilian and Trinidad and Ireland, it is incredible what is going on. You know but my family is from Cameroon. Alex Hailey found out, is from Qatar and Cameroon, French, Cherokee Indian and half-Welsh. I am going to Wales next week to become an honorary citizen of Wales. I did not find this out till 15 years ago, how the hell did we know where anybody came from. Because I’m American, you know, that is a lot of stuff. And last night Peter Fonda, Jane Fonda is my cousin, we almost dated.

Yue-sai KanNo, no, it is true.

Quincy JonesWe almost dated when she was 20. [laughter]

Yue-sai KanYou know one of Quincy's wives, Nastassja Kinski, one of the most gorgeous…

Quincy JonesMy young baby, yeah.

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Yue-sai KanYeah you have a baby.

Quincy JonesAnd we got some gumbo going on. But everybody's got gumbo, I bet she got some gumbo.

Yue-sai KanLast question.

Quincy Jones…and him I know he has got some – where are you from?

[Male]Turkey, sir.

Quincy Jones[Turkish]. They even taught me pezevenk, you know pezevenk, that is pimp in Turkish. Is that right, pezevenk?

[Female]Mr. Jones, we have a question. We would like to ask you your views on how the music industry in China can nurture talent and possibly avoid some of the pitfalls that have occurred in the US?

Yue-sai KanShe would like to know how the…

[Female]…Chinese music industries.

Yue-sai Kan…the Chinese musicians can avoid some of the pitfalls.

[Female]No, how the Chinese music industry can nurture talent here in China?

Yue-sai KanCan nurture talents here?

Quincy JonesWell, I think a lot of them are doing it, you know, from what I have seen the conservatories, and I’ve been to the conservatories of Xi’an and Xinjiang and Beijing and Shanghai and I have never seen such thirst for knowledge and preparation to prepare the science for – where are you from?

[Female]I am from the US.

Yue-sai KanFrom the US.

Quincy Jones

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I get an accent though.

[Female]Oh, well I grew up in Canada.

Quincy JonesWhat?

[Female]I grew up in Canada.

Yue-sai KanGrew up in Canada just like…

[Female]But I have lived in Asia for 30 years.

Quincy JonesBut it sounds more than that though. You sound real Russian you know.

[Female]Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah. It is mixed up.

Quincy JonesKagdila.

[Female]Spaciba.

Quincy JonesOkay, [Unclear] that is just my passion. I used to sit in the airport in Paris 30 years ago and watch the kind of material to the pants and socks or shoes and guess where people are from because this is important to develop this phenomena of humanities about [ph] to me.

Yue-sai KanLast question with this young man and the lady in the back, could you come up?

[Male]Actually I have a couple of questions.

Yue-sai KanCouple? One.

[Male]The last four questions.

Yue-sai KanCouple of questions, yes?

[Male]Okay, can I make it in one sentence? Okay, really nice to meet you here, Mr. Quincy Jones and nice to see you again Yue-sai Kan. And I have a

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question. How do you find a balance between doing music as an art and making music as a business? And another question is – can I do that?

Yue-sai KanWell, let him answer this one first.

Quincy JonesHow do you make music as a business?

[Male]Yeah, and music as an art.

Quincy JonesYou have to do some research. At first I just thought I knew about the music, I did not know about the music business because we were very idealistic when we are young. And if you played bebop, that’s for sure, that is a – it’s a case that you are not thinking about money or fame, because there was neither attached to bebop because it was revolutionary music. And our idols were dying at 35 of heroin overdoses, Charlie Parker. You know but that was music that was part of a revolutionary movement.

But you have to study, there are books out, man. There are books by my lawyer, Don Passman, ‘The business of music’. It is a science. You have to study the science of it. How many sources are there? You know the sources of record business have changed so you have got to think about synchronization, rights of songs that go in movies or in television shows or DVDs. You have to think about ring tones, big-big-big-big-big business. Wasn’t even around, I couldn’t even pronounce that when I was young. They did not have that kind of stuff you know, but you have to keep up with what is going on and do your homework.

You know it really is, there are some great books out, go on the Internet and Google ‘the business of music’, because I did not learn it till I got stranded in Europe in 1959, for 10 months with 33 people and it took me 7 years to pay it all off. But you know that is how you learn. Pray for that you can make a lot of mistakes man because the more mistakes you make you know, at some magical moment it morphs into experience. That means you messed up a lot. You had a chance to mess up but I treasure my mistakes.

[Male]Thank you, the other one which might sound a little silly but I am really curious about. What is it like being called a legend or the living legends by people around you?

Yue-sai KanWhat is it like being called a living legend?

Quincy JonesNo, I do not like that. Well, legend sounds old to me. [laughter] That is for somebody else, I am just a kid.

Yue-sai KanOkay, really the last question.

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Dana NelsonGreetings, I am Dana Nelson, a professional MBA student from Florida A&M University.

Quincy JonesOh, Cannonball, Cannonball Adderley, right?

Dana NelsonPardon me?

Quincy JonesHe went to Florida A&M.

Dana NelsonWho?

Quincy JonesCannonball Adderley. You do not know who he is, do you?

Dana NelsonNo, but I am sure you can tell me.

Quincy JonesOne of the greatest saxophone players that ever lived. And Ray Charles was from down there too.

Dana NelsonYes, a lot of great rattlers we have.

Quincy JonesYes ma’am.

Dana NelsonMy question is seeing that you have been in the music industry for many years and you have seen the industry change and grow and evolve. Now currently do you hear some current artists saying that hip-hop is dead and you see a lot of songs out there making money with a quick hook and a quick dance that everyone seems to be catching on to, but how did you balance that line of making money and still producing music that has some type of lyrical content?

Quincy JonesWell, see, that is the thing. I have got to go with the passion first, honey. I have to go with passion first, because if you aim at the money, you can put $2 million on a piano and tell a piano player, play me $2 million worth the music, they do not talk to each other, they do not work like that. You have to do something that moves you and I see 14-year-old kids who like jazz, bebop now. I know they are very rare but it just has to be about a passion and you have to train yourself to back up your passion. That is all I can say because it is a record business, you can say all you want about hip-hop but JC’s [ph] records have bombed, Usher’s [ph] record just bombed that freaked him out, I mean these are all my dawgs. They are at

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my house all the time, Quincy teach me how to be a good musician, Verel [ph] all of them, Akon, every one of them Lil Wayne, everybody.

Yue-sai KanQuincy. Really the last question, since I am the host I can ask this question. Quincy, when you leave us at the age of a 110 what would you like to be remembered as?

Quincy JonesA hundred and twenty. [laughter] My friend said to me the other day Johnny Mandel was the most incredible musician. He wrote ‘The Shadow of Your Smile’, one of the great – we just started at 19 and he is 10 years older to me and he said, Q I think you and I are going to be the first people we know that managed to evolve from infancy to Alzheimer’s without passing grown-up. I don’t ever want to be grown-up.

Yue-sai KanYeah, thank you so much everybody.

Cherie LiemSorry. Can you please be seated, there is going to be a ceremony and this is something that is a surprise. Please be seated. As you know we are preparing for the Shanghai Expo and the Bund area will have a transformation and at Three on the Bund, we are honored to have Quincy Jones and Yue-sai with us today. And we have prepared this handprint ceremony which will be permanently left on the Bund. And it will be called the Three Walk of Harmony. And this is a very significant moment and we would like to invite Quincy Jones to come on and I think as we share about We are the World and we are all a family and we would like to – if you all feel that way and can we play the ‘We are the world’ music and we would like to invite you.

Quincy JonesIt is so sweet – beautiful lady. Xie xie.

[We are the World plays.]

[Female]You are to put your handprint.

Quincy JonesWhat’s this? Oh, okay I thought we are supposed to sit down.

[Female]No, leave it on, they want you to leave it on.

Quincy JonesOkay.

Yue-sai KanHarder, harder you have to push it. Every single one has to be in there.

Cherie LiemCan you look up for the camera.

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Quincy JonesOkay.

Cherie LiemI think you need to push harder, sorry just put your weight on it.

Quincy JonesPress it down now.

Yue-sai KanThis will be permanently in Shanghai so everybody will remember that.

Quincy JonesYeah, that is right, that is right.

Yue-sai KanRight.

Quincy JonesSo press it baby, press it baby, press it baby, press it baby.

Yue-sai KanPress it.

Quincy JonesPut the pigu on it.

Yue-sai KanI am okay.

Quincy JonesOkay. Oh, yeah that is good. Good, that is good.

[Male]Thank you, Mr. Jones.

Quincy JonesAll right.

Yue-sai KanThank you so much.

Quincy JonesThat is good, that is good. [laughs]

[MC]Thank you Mr. Jones.

Quincy JonesGood, I am looking at those pretty fingers.

[MC]Thank you Yue-sai and thank you Mr. Jones.

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Thank you for attending Three Talk today and with thanks to Alaska Water and PepsiCo for sponsoring today's drinks. And also a thank you to Sinophone for today's simultaneous translation services and sound system work. Thank you Yue-sai and Mr. Jones.

Quincy JonesXie xie!

Yue-sai KanLook at this way.

[MC]And ladies and gentlemen may I please ask you to stay to take one moment to fill out the survey forms on your seats. Thank you again.

Yue-sai KanYou did not think I could put a [Unclear].

Quincy JonesThat is right, that is right. Well, you can’t.

[MC]Ladies and gentlemen if you are considering stay on for dinner at Three on the Bund please show your treat slips on your seats and I am sure we are giving you some extra special goodies, so please show your treat slips to the restaurant.

Yue-sai KanI have already got mine.

Quincy JonesXie xie, Cherie.

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