Roy Ayers Quotes

• 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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  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Music, True

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Words, Write

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happy, Enjoy, Trip

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Song, Artists

• 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

  Topics in Soul

  Tags in Play

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Day, Long

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Beautiful, Music

• I always had this energy level that made me want to come to New York.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in New, Come

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

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  Topics in Youth

  Tags in Understand

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Look, Tell

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Person

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Live, Show

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

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  Tags in Street

• I think music all the time.

  Roy Ayers

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music

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

  Roy Ayers

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Play, Definitely

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

  Roy Ayers

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happened, Compliment

• I was with PolyGram; that was the big label that I was with for the longest, like 12 years.

  Roy Ayers

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Longest, Label

• Now I get exposure first with people directly in the clubs. This is a unique situation for me.

  Roy Ayers

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Unique, Situation

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

  Roy Ayers

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Feeling, Wonderful

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Someone, Person

Roy Ayers (32)

Birth:	10th September, 1940
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Composer, Musician, Lyricist

About

Roy Ayers is an American funk, soul, and jazz composer and vibraphone player. Ayers began his career as a post-bop jazz artist, releasing several albums with Atlantic Records, before his tenure at Polydor Records beginning in the 1970s, during which he helped pioneer jazz-funk.

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