Quotes by Roy Ayers - Page 1

I think music all the time.
Roy Ayers / Composer
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DJs and people in the street know what they like.
Roy Ayers / Composer
Djs
Knows
People
Streets
Street
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The true beauty of music is that it connects people.
Roy Ayers / Composer
Music
People
True Beauty
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Soul has no musical geographical or racial boundaries.
Roy Ayers / Composer
Boundaries
Musical
Soul
Geographical
Racial
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I'm celebrating my 40th year in show business this year.
Roy Ayers / Composer
Show Business
Celebrating
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It's a wonderful feeling just being in this creative motif.
Roy Ayers / Composer
Creative
Creativity
Feelings
Wonderful
Wonderful Feeling
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A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.
Roy Ayers / Composer
Artist
Hip Hop
Writing
Hip
Hop
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I don't trip on that much. I just like to enjoy life and be happy.
Roy Ayers / Composer
Happy
Journey
Travel
Enjoy
Enjoy Life
Life Happy Be Happy
Be Happy
Trip
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I always had this energy level that made me want to come to New York.
Roy Ayers / Composer
New York
Energy
Levels
Always Me Energy
Energy Level
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I'd definitely love to play in Nashville again. That would be really good.
Roy Ayers / Composer
Nashville
Play
Would Be
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I don't like rap that you can't understand. The youth is so quick and alert.
Roy Ayers / Composer
Rap
Youth
Alert
Quick
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I've been sampled so much and I'm glad it's happened, it's a great compliment.
Roy Ayers / Composer
Compliment
Glad
Happened
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I was with PolyGram; that was the big label that I was with for the longest, like 12 years.
Roy Ayers / Composer
Bigs
Labels
Years
Label
Longest
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Now I get exposure first with people directly in the clubs. This is a unique situation for me.
Roy Ayers / Composer
Clubs
Exposure
People
Unique
Me People Situation
Directly
Me Situation People
Unique Situation
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You grow and learn a lot about the industry and what happens behind closed doors over the years.
Roy Ayers / Composer
Closed Doors
Doors
Industry
Behind
Closed
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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.
Roy Ayers / Composer
Beauty
Music
Messengers
People
True Beauty
Music People True
True
Carries
Connects
Message
Musicians
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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.
Roy Ayers / Composer
Kicking It
People
Records
Years
Time Good Me
Time Good Look
Check
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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.
Roy Ayers / Composer
Musician
Piano
Track
Played
Laid
Musicians
Recording
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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.
Roy Ayers / Composer
England
Mother And Father
Years Ago
Music Your Me
Music Father Me
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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.
Roy Ayers / Composer
Back In The Day
Long
Records
Time Long Day
Studio
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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.
Roy Ayers / Composer
Causes
Online
People
Records
Stores
People Live Know
Live People Know
Distributor
Sell
Generally
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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.
Roy Ayers / Composer
Jazz
Play
Smooth
Smooth Jazz
Soul
Stations
Album
Connection
So-Called
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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 Ayers / Composer
Artist
Leonardo
Sensitive
Work Always Feel
Artists
Work Feel Always
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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.
Roy Ayers / Composer
Ends
Musician
Song
Count
Musicians
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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.
Roy Ayers / Composer
Artist
Company
Contracts
Records
Artists
Directly
Record
Production
Mine
Owned
Production Company
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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.
Roy Ayers / Composer
Journey
Buying
People
Popularity
Stuff
Success Me People
Some People
Trip
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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!
Roy Ayers / Composer
Artist
Majors
Song
Thinking
Time Always People
Artists
Hit
Every Time
Time Song People
Picked
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I don't think I'm really so unique. If every black person looked at their life they would quickly discover that they have been influenced by every type of music prevalent in America.
Roy Ayers / Composer
America
Thinking
Type
Unique
Discover
Influenced
Looked
Quickly
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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.
Roy Ayers / Composer
Cases
Distribution
Majors
Outlets
Pressure
Radio
Records
Venues
Downloading
Pirating
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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.
Roy Ayers / Composer
Long
Long Time
Oppression
Particular
Soul
Years
African
Forms
Influenced
Origin
Racial
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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.
Roy Ayers / Composer
Acid
Caught
Defining
Jazz
People
Play
Smooth
Smooth Jazz
Music Always People
Characterized
Music Style People
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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.
Roy Ayers / Composer
Continuing
New Ways
Numbers
People
Records
Years
People New Find
Period
Sell
Sees
Shelf
Sold
Store
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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.
Roy Ayers / Composer
Happy
Health
Able
Beautiful
Breathe
Good Health
Heart
Love Life
Life Love Good
Life Love Health
Be Happy
Gift
Gifts
Having
Most Beautiful
Play Music
Telling
Top
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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.
Roy Ayers / Composer
Giving
Talking
Ubiquity
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