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Legendary music producer Quincy Jones apologized Thursday for the blunt, super-interesting interviews he recently gave where he did not hold back from throwing shade at fellow celebrities or sharing some great gossip.
He did not, however, seem to suggest any of his statements were untrue.
In case you somehow missed it, in a pair of high-profile interviews with GQ and Vulture, Jones revealed he's perhaps the most connected man in Hollywood history and that he has an anecdote about anything or anyone, from spicy tidbits about Prince's feud with Michael Jackson to his brief relationship with Ivanka Trump to a purported sexual encounter between Marlon Brando and Richard Pryor.
Jones, who helped turn Jackson into the King of Pop, also had some thoughts on mop-top rockers The Beatles. When Vulture's David Marchese asked what his first impression of the band was, Jones responded, "That they were the worst musicians in the world. They were no-playing motherfukkers. Paul was the worst bass player I ever heard. And Ringo? Don't even talk about it."
Most of us loved reading Jones take these trips down memory lane. But his remarks clearly rubbed someone (a few people?) the wrong way. On Thursday, he tweeted that, after an intervention from his daughters, he realized he should probably apologize. "I have LEARNED MY LESSON," he wrote in a statement posted to Twitter.
Quincy Jones apologizes for giving the most interesting interviews ever
The 85-year-old especially seemed to regret the bits of the interviews where he talked poorly about colleagues. "When you've been fortunate enough to have lived such a long & crazy life (& you’ve recently stopped drinking – three years ago!), certain details about specific events (which do NOT paint the full picture of my intentions nor experiences) come flooding back all at once," he wrote in the statement. "Even at 85, it's apparent that 'wordvomit' & bad-mouthing is inexcusable."
It makes sense Jones would retreat a bit from these statements—he probably still wants to get invited to parties, after all. But thank goodness the interviews exist. We'll always have the wonderful oddities like Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen apparently playing the guitar like Jimi Hendrix and moments of blunt truth, like Jones' thoughts on Elvis Presley. "Yeah, motherfukker couldn't sing," he told GQ.
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