Gary Wright Quotes

• We visited Ravi. We didn’t study with him, as such.

  Gary Wright

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• We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like an artist during those days-not like product, which is now the mode.

  Gary Wright

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• The more far-out artists, the better.

  Gary Wright

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• The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it’s great. But spamming ads and piracy of music is terrible. It’s stealing.

  Gary Wright

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  Tags in Internet, Source, Information

• The idea to do the album only on keyboards kind of happened by accident. I was quite happy with the sound and felt it really didn’t need more instruments, so I didn’t use them.

  Gary Wright

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• No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist’s work and download it free is stealing. It’s hard work writing and recording music, and it’s morally wrong to steal it.

  Gary Wright

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• My music and lyrics became an extension of this Indian philosophy.

  Gary Wright

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• India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It’s the reverse of the West.

  Gary Wright

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• In 1972, George Harrison invited me to accompany him on a trip to India.

  Gary Wright

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  Tags in Myself, Musician, Invited, India

• I’m developing artists for my new record label, my son’s band, Intangible, being one of them.

  Gary Wright

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• I will be developing artists for my new label. The rest is in God’s Hands.

  Gary Wright

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• I like Anastacia’s version of Love is Alive best.

  Gary Wright

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  Tags in Alive, Best

• I didn’t develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.

  Gary Wright

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• I always wanted to do something completely different.

  Gary Wright

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• George Harrison is perhaps one of the most creative people I ever met, not only in his music and songwriting, but just the way he lived his life, decorated his gardens and homes. He was a dear friend of mine. His entire approach to music was very unique.

  Gary Wright

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  Tags in People, Musician, Creative

• Artists were nurtured back in the ’70s. Their music was developed by the record companies.

  Gary Wright

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  Tags in Music, Artists, Record, Companies

• Music’s staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.

  Gary Wright

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Gary Wright (17)

Birth:	26th April, 1943
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Composer, Lyricist

About

Gary Malcolm Wright is an American singer, songwriter and musician, best known for his 1976 hit songs "Dream Weaver" and "Love Is Alive", and for his role in helping establish the synthesizer as a leading instrument in rock and pop music. Wright's breakthrough album, The Dream Weaver, came after he had spent seven years in London as, alternately, a member of the British heavy rock band Spooky Tooth and a solo artist on A&M Records.

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