Roy Ayers Quotes

• I’m celebrating my 40th year in show business this year.

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  Topics in Business

• 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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  Tags in Same

• 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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• 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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  Topics in Father, Mother

  Tags in Music

• Soul has no musical geographical or racial boundaries.

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  Topics in Soul

  Tags in Musical

• 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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  Topics in Success

  Tags in Friends

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Play

• 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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  Tags in Control, Pressure

• 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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  Topics in Soul

  Tags in Around

• 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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  Tags in Talk, Used

• You grow and learn a lot about the industry and what happens behind closed doors over the years.

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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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