Quincy Jones says he’s “an 85-year-old bow-legged man who is still learning from his mistakes.”
Specifically, that you shouldn’t publicly spill very private, scorching-hot tea.
The 28-time Grammy-winning producer issued a lengthy apology on Twitter about the recent Vulture and GQ interviews that generated a bevy of sensational headlines.
“I have learned my lesson!” Jones wrote, adding, “I am an imperfect human and I’m not afraid to say it. And I’m sorry and I’m not afraid to say it.”
Apparently, Q’s six daughters staged a “family intervention” to notify him of the “silly things” he’d made public, including “certain details about specific events” that he said did not paint the full picture of his intentions or experience.
That includes, but is not limited to, him naming numerous names, bad-mouthing pop icon Michael Jackson and alleging that late comic Richard Pryor had an affair with late actor Marlon Brando, the latter of which Pryor’s daughter Rain and Brando’s son Miko denied.
Jones did not specifically refer to any of the allegations in his apology.
He blamed his age and three years of sobriety for the “wordvomit” that came across in his discussions, explaining that the memories came “flooding back all at once.” But what he did was still “inexcusable,” he said.
“One of the hardest things about this situation is that this bad-mouthing has contradicted the very real messages I tried to relay about racism, inequality, homophopia.... you name it. And of course I don’t want that,” he said.
Jones, whose illustrious career in the music biz spans six decades, said he already reached out to his friends privately but because he lives a public life, he has “a responsibility to be an example” and make a public apology.
“I’m sorry to anyone whom my words offended and I’m especially sorry to my friends who are still here with me and to those who aren’t,” he wrote.
