Why Quincy Jones would be a misfit in a music industry he helped shape

Today, big-ticket artistes heavily rely on ‘interpolation’ — a clever way to circumvent copyright infringement by rerecording parts of a song rather than directly sampling it. At a time when the music-making machinery is tirelessly working to create catchy formulaic pop music, Jones famously said, ‘I’ve never, ever in my life done music for money or fame — because that’s when God walks out of the room,’ he said.