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On the eve of his 85th birthday, legendary record producer Quincy Jones covered a lot of controversial ground in a wide-ranging interview with New York magazine.



The frank interview touched on lighter fare, like astrology (he's a Pisces) and dating Ivanka Trump, to why race relations and feminism are imperative movements right now.

Jones gave many opinions about the music industry (namely, that it no longer exists), but is optimistic about artists like Bruno Mars, Chance the Rapper, Kendrick Lamar, Sam Smith and Mark Ronson. The verbose 28-time Grammy winner had plenty of hot takes about the musical legends he's worked with over decades, from Michael Jackson to the Beatles to Cream.

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