Chaka Khan, Jennifer Hudson and More Reflect on Quincy Jones' Legacy Ahead of His 90th Birthday (Exclusive)
etonline.comJennifer Hudson said, with Ludacris agreeing, «Everyone in the music industry looks up to Quincy Jones. It's that simple.»Meanwhile, Chaka Khan called Jones «the best that there ever was in his field.»«Everybody who ever is around Quincy Jones says the same thing, that there's a light about him,» Oprah Winfrey told ET, adding in a 1996 interview that Jones «stole my heart when we did .»Steven Spielberg noted that Jones has «worn many, many hats» throughout his career. «I think Quincy Jones knows more people, more significant people who have changed the world, than anybody I have ever met,» Spielberg said.It's safe to say Rashida Jones is a fan too, as the soon-to-be 90-year-old is the actress' dad.«He is very supportive of anything that I decided to do,» the younger Jones told ET in 2005.In a 2007 chat with Jones, he told ET that the actress and his six other children make him «the luckiest man on the planet.»«I am so proud of it, I can't stand it,» he said of his kids. «I always told them I want to be their friend, their parent first, but I wanna be their friend because that's for life.»As for his own legacy, Jones told ET in 1990 that, since he doesn't «have a clue» what that will be, he's «just going to keep on doing my thing and hope that it will mean something to somebody.» Chaka Khan Shares Her Biggest Life Lessons Ahead of Turning 70 Smokey Robinson Shares Stevie Wonder, Martin Luther King Jr.
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