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Roy Ayers

But I did mine through a prod...

But I did mine through a production company. All the music I did, I gave to the production company. Then the production company would give the record company the album. I used to do all my albums like that. It was fantastic. But now, understand, I have never planned to do anything with these other tapes. The one that are released, like the Virgin Ubiquity you have there, I wasn't going to do anything with that music. One day, I was talking to this guy that owns BBE over in England, and I said I've got some tapes and stuff that you might be interested in, and he went berserk.

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Roy Ayers

Some people really trip on su...

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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Roy Ayers

Only a certain number of peop...

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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Roy Ayers

People in England were coming...

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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Roy Ayers

It's a wonderful feeling just...

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

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Roy Ayers

The true beauty of music is t...

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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Roy Ayers

When I was recording from '70...

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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Roy Ayers

You grow and learn a lot abou...

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

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Roy Ayers

Most artists have contracts d...

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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Roy Ayers

The majors, they have to cont...

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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Roy Ayers

What we call soul has been ar...

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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Roy Ayers

Most musicians count at the b...

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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Roy Ayers

People are always defining an...

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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Roy Ayers

I don't trip on that much. I ...

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

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Roy Ayers

Artists don't always know. Al...

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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Roy Ayers

I don't think I'm really so u...

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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Roy Ayers

I was being an artist, being ...

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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Roy Ayers

Having good health, being abl...

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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Roy Ayers

I couldn't get my album playe...

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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Roy Ayers

A lot of the hip hop artists ...

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

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