Roy Ayers Quotes

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

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  Tags in Understand

• 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.

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  Tags in Music, Person

• 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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  Tags in Play

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

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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.

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  Tags in Beautiful, Music

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

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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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• 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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  Tags in Song, Artists

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

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  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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  Tags in Happy, Enjoy, Trip

• 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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  Tags in Music, True

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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