Showing posts with label Roy Ayers Quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Roy Ayers Quotes. Show all posts
Roy Ayers Quotes
"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
Roy Ayers Quotes
"You grow and learn a lot about the industry and what happens behind closed doors over the years." - Roy Ayers
Roy Ayers Quotes
"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." - Roy Ayers
Roy Ayers Quotes
"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." - Roy Ayers
Roy Ayers Quotes
"The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers." - Roy Ayers
Roy Ayers Quotes
"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." - Roy Ayers
Roy Ayers Quotes
"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." - Roy Ayers
Roy Ayers Quotes
"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." - Roy Ayers
Roy Ayers Quotes
"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
Roy Ayers Quotes
"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
Roy Ayers Quotes
"Now I get exposure first with people directly in the clubs. This is a unique situation for me." - Roy Ayers
Roy Ayers Quotes
"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
Roy Ayers Quotes
"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." - Roy Ayers
Roy Ayers Quotes
"I was with PolyGram; that was the big label that I was with for the longest, like 12 years." - Roy Ayers
Roy Ayers Quotes
"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." - Roy Ayers
Roy Ayers Quotes
"I've been sampled so much and I'm glad it's happened, it's a great compliment." - Roy Ayers
Roy Ayers Quotes
"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
