Quincy Jones No Songwriting Credits?

Not a writer, rather one of those wonderfully gifted musicians/producers who had the ability to take a 3:30 demo and turn it into pure gold. He had an unreal ability to bring together the perfect players for different projects.

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I don't think Quincy Jones is much of a lyricist. Neither is Sir Elton. It happens. That's going to make it tough to generate a lot of solo credits for pop/rock/country/r&b/soul songs.

He's more of a "composer" and producer than anything, including "songwriter." He would probably consider the distinction I just made as a compliment.

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Point being Quincy Jones has little to no co- songwriting credits either in Pop music because he is not a composer of pop music. Jones is almost completely incapable of writing such music & is out of his element.


See "Bitter Sweet Symphony " in which the young artists simply took a few string arrangements from a Rollin Stones tune( Last Time). Richards & Jagger took full Credit from the poor guy & won a damn songwriting Grammy. Despite Richards & Jagger not writing the original string section.




You are still subtly suggesting that Jones may have ' composed' instrumentals for others like Michael Jackosn ,but he didn't & if so he would have easily gotten credit & hundreds of millions of dollars.

Jones has neither claim he composed any music or asked for credit for composing any pop music .

He may have provided instrumentals to one hit song in over 62 years . He does have several more minor hits with huge group credits.


One can't simply slap lyrics on music & get full songwriting credit .