Q ‘just getting started’ on CNN
Quincy’s featured in a nice piece on CNN.com, which focuses on various highlights from his career and spotlights his acclaimed new coffee table book, The Complete Quincy Jones: My Journey & Passions
Reflecting on the career-spanning tome, Q tells CNN, “It startled me. It still does. [You look at the index], and you say, how did all this happen? … It’s an astounding experience. And what’s strange about it,” Quincy adds, “is I feel like I’m just starting.”
In the piece, Q credits his late brother and sister-in-law, who “saved everything” connected to Quincy’s rise and career, including many of the treasures that are replicated and featured inside the book.
“I used to write a log every day when I was starving to death in New York in the early ’50s — every little arrangement, because we were surviving on that,” Q tells CNN. “They had all of that material. I had no idea they saved all that. I move too fast to do all that.”
Aside from observations on his own early days, Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, and Michael Jackson, Quincy took the opportunity to once again plug his hope that President-elect Barack Obama will appoint a secretary of the arts.
“Our music is the most widely imitated music on the planet, and we’re the only country without a minister of culture. … All over the world they understand our music better than we do,” Quincy tells CNN.
The petition endorsing Q’s quest for a secretary of arts has more than 6,000 signatures as of this writing. You can view it here.
You can read the CNN piece in its entirety here.