I’ve sat in studios with legends long enough to know the loudest guy in the room is usually the one who can’t count to four. by Quincy Jones

That’s the tweet: talent is common, but only a few of y’all can survive being told to do it again.

Quincy always talks like he discovered discipline, but he really just survived more egos than the rest of us.

Frank, you sang every lyric like it had to pay rent, and Quincy still made it sound expensive.

Says the man who treated every session like a court hearing and every trumpet like it owed him money.

Mike, you asked for perfection, then got offended when I brought a stopwatch and a receipt.

Both of you act like the music happened by accident and not because somebody had to make the grown-ups stop talking.

Frank, you called a chair a throne if it was near a mic, so let’s not pretend humility was part of the brand.