Roy Ayers quotes
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“The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.”
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“A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.”
-- Roy AyersSource : "An Interview with Roy Ayers". Interview with Matt Rogers, www.popmatters.com. February 2, 2004.
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“Soul has no musical geographical or racial boundaries.”
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“I generally sell my records online or at the show. You can undersell the distributor and the stores, and people know what they're getting cause they've just seen you live.”
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“I don't trip on that much. I just like to enjoy life and be happy.”
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“People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play; I'm not caught up in defining the type of music I play.”
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“I've been sampled so much and I'm glad it's happened, it's a great compliment.”
-- Roy AyersSource : Interview with Matt Rogers, www.popmatters.com. February 02, 2004.
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“DJs and people in the street know what they like.”
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“Having good health, being able to breathe and be happy, that's one of the most beautiful gifts. On top of that, I have the gift to play music and make people happy through that. I'm just telling you from my heart, I'm so in love with life.”
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“Most musicians count at the beginning, and never count and talk to their musicians after that. They only talk to them at the end of the song. But I would count with them and talk.”
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“I was being an artist, being sensitive and technical as artists are. I'm sure Leonardo Da Vinci did that. Artists don't always feel the same as others feel about their work.”
-- Roy AyersSource : "Ubiquity Still Virgin After All These Years: An Interview with Roy Ayers". Interview with Matt Rogers, www.popmatters.com. February 2, 2004.
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“Back in the day, I used to be in the studio recording 20 hours a day. And that was all of the time. I still record a lot of hours, but I don't go as long as I used to.”
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“I still look good. I'm trippin', but people tell me that all the time. So check it out, I'm 63, and still kicking. I've been putting records out every year.”
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“Some people really trip on success or popularity. My friends would talk to me about that, about tripping on all this stuff, but you know what I tripped on? I started buying property.”
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“I don't like rap that you can't understand. The youth is so quick and alert.”
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“What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin, but influenced by 250 years of slavery, as well as other forms of racial oppression.”
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“It's a wonderful feeling just being in this creative motif.”
-- Roy AyersSource : Interview with Matt Rogers, www.popmatters.com. February 02, 2004.
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“I'd definitely love to play in Nashville again. That would be really good.”
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“I couldn't get my album played over the so-called smooth jazz stations. Jazz stations would not play it. You don't always know who you're making that soul connection with.”
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“But I did mine through a production company. All the music I did, I gave to the production company. Then the production company would give the record company the album. I used to do all my albums like that. It was fantastic. But now, understand, I have never planned to do anything with these other tapes. The one that are released, like the Virgin Ubiquity you have there, I wasn't going to do anything with that music. One day, I was talking to this guy that owns BBE over in England, and I said I've got some tapes and stuff that you might be interested in, and he went berserk.”
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“I always had this energy level that made me want to come to New York.”
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“Now I get exposure first with people directly in the clubs. This is a unique situation for me.”
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“Artists don't always know. Almost every song I ever recorded that was a hit at the majors that the promotional people picked I didn't think it would be a hit. I was wrong every time!”
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