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.

  Roy Ayers

  People, True Beauty, Messengers

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• The true beauty of music is that it connects people.

  Roy Ayers

  Music, People, True Beauty

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• A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.

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  Writing, Artist, Hip Hop

  "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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  Soul, Musical, Boundaries

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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

  Beautiful, Heart, Love Life

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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

  People, Records, Causes

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• I don't trip on that much. I just like to enjoy life and be happy.

  Roy Ayers

  Travel, Journey, Enjoy Life

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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

  Play, Smooth Jazz, People

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• I've been sampled so much and I'm glad it's happened, it's a great compliment.

  Roy Ayers

  Compliment, Glad, Happened

  Interview with Matt Rogers, www.popmatters.com. February 02, 2004.

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• DJs and people in the street know what they like.

  Roy Ayers

  People, Streets, Knows

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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

  Song, Musician, Ends

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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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  Artist, Sensitive, Leonardo

  "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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• 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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  Years, Long, Soul

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• It's a wonderful feeling just being in this creative motif.

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  Creativity, Creative, Feelings

  Interview with Matt Rogers, www.popmatters.com. February 02, 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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  Long, Records, Back In The Day

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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

  Years, Kicking It, People

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• I think music all the time.

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  Thinking

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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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  Journey, People, Stuff

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• I don't like rap that you can't understand. The youth is so quick and alert.

  Roy Ayers

  Rap, Youth

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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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  Play, Smooth Jazz, Soul

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• I'd definitely love to play in Nashville again. That would be really good.

  Roy Ayers

  Nashville, Play, Would Be

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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

  Song, Artist, Thinking

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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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  Pressure, Records, Radio

  "An Interview with Roy Ayers". Interview with Matt Rogers, www.popmatters.com. February 2, 2004.

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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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  Piano, Track, Musician

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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

  Years, Numbers, People

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