Young Quincy had a acquired a taste for the street and thug life early on, and he and his boys had burglarized a store that, as fate would have it, had musical instruments in them. When Jones incidentally sat down at one of the pianos and touched the keys, a sudden epiphany and transformation occurred instantaneously, Q once told this writer in an exclusive interview. Introduced to his new destiny, a ravenous Quincy tried nearly all the instruments in his school band before settling on the trumpet.
