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Mr. MOORHEAD. If not, we want to thank you very much.
Ms. Barshefsky. Thank you.
Ms. Peters. Thank you.
Mr. Lehman. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Mr. Moorhead. Our next witness will be Mr. Quincy Jones. Over the years Mr. Jones' career has encompassed the roles of composer, record producer, artist, film producer, arranger, conductor, instrumentalist, TV producer, record company executive, magazine founder, and multimedia entrepreneur. He's won 26 Grammy Awards, the Recording Academy's Trustee's Award, and a Grammy Living Legend Award. He's also an Emmy winner and seven-time Oscar nominee, and was recently honored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with their John Hersholt Humanitarian Award. He's the chief executive officer of Quincy Jones Entertainment.
Welcome, Mr. Jones.
Mr. CONYERS. Could I, Mr. Chairman, could I add my welcome to Mr. Jones, our witness?
Mr. Moorhead. You sure can.
Mr. CONYERS. As one who may have known him as long as anybody in the Congress — we don't like to get into the numbers thing, but it's a real pleasure to have him come here. It was at some expense of his time to travel across the country, and it makes me feel very good because I've seen him in every part of our society except as a witness in Congress. [Laughter.]
I don't know if you've been doing this a long time or not, but, Quincy, you are probably one of the last survivors of that part of the jazz era called "bop," and reviewing this in one of the documents about you, it made me remember that you tie — through you have come all the contacts with almost all the musicians — black, white, Latin, international, local, foreign, domestic, and everything else. And whenever I used to hear a good tune that I didn't know who did it, after about three or four times of finding out that it was you, I probably attributed tunes to you that maybe you didn't do, but it always fascinated me, that great variety in your repertoire that you could reach to it. So I'm very, very happy to have you here.
And thank you for allowing me to say that, Mr. Chairman.
Mr. Jones. Thank you.
Mr. Moorhead. And we felt you needed one more thing to put in your bibliography. So that's why you can say you're a witness at a congressional hearing.
Would you summarize your statement in 10 minutes or less, and then we'll all ask you all kinds of questions.
STATEMENT OF QUINCY JONES, SONGWRITER AND MEMBER,
AMSONG, INC.
Mr. Jones. OK. Good morning, Chairman Moorhead and members of the subcommittee. My name is Quincy Jones and I'm a songwriter, among other things, and a member of AmSong, Inc.
I'd like to take this opportunity also to sincerely thank all of you here in the administration for your support for this bill. It means a lot to us.