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Roy Ayers Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated Apr 2024
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You grow and learn a lot about the industry and what happens behind closed doors over the years.
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When I was recording from '70 to '82, I always played piano and laid the tracks down. But I used to talk to the other musicians while the track was playing.
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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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The true beauty of music is that it connects peopl. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.
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The majors, they have to control the distribution, the record outlets, the radio and, in some cases, even the venues. And downloading and pirating have also put pressure on the majors.
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Soul has no musical geographical or racial boundaries.
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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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People in England were coming up to me, saying, My mother and father turned me on to your music. This happened to me 20 years ago. When I was 40 they were saying that.
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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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Only a certain number of people go to a store over the period of a year. When a person sees my record on the shelf, it eliminates someone else's record from being sold. It's about continuing to try to find new ways to sell records.
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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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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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Most artists have contracts directly with the record company, and when they do music, all of their music is owned by the record company. But I did mine through a production company.
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It's a wonderful feeling just being in this creative motif.
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I've been sampled so much and I'm glad it's happened, it's a great compliment.
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I'm celebrating my 40th year in show business this year.
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I'd definitely love to play in Nashville again. That would be really good.
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I was with PolyGram; that was the big label that I was with for the longest, like 12 years.
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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.
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I think music all the time.
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