Cats the musical biography of quincy jones

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Jones studied under Boulanger in order to learn counterpoint, orchestration and composition. That year in Paris was wonderful. It is amazing that Jones could remember all the aspects of his career in order to put it into book format. There was so much to the writing and rewriting. You just sit down and use power and work it out. I never looked back before; I got surprises, painful things, revelations, a lot of joyful surprises too, just dealing with it.

Jones continues to explain how the book came about. Then I found out you have to sit down and start to figure it out yourself. The form and shape and tone are so important. I dealt with drama, TV, film, magazines, music, written word, where you have to convey that same emotion through the written world.

Cats the musical biography of quincy jones

Words can be very powerful. He compares music with painting. So I set up a form or contour, like charcoal sketches, then as I do with more contour; the music starts to come, then I get into pastels. Then there is orchestration, which is the oils. Orchestration feels like painting. You can paint forever. That whisper is never wrong. I trusted it for a long long time.

I knew that if those negative feelings would turn back on me it would destroy me.