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Roy Ayers

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

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Donna Grant

"I was totally devastated for four years in the mid '60s when l tried to buck the tide."

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Donna Grant

"I didn't think I'd be around 30 years later."

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Donna Grant

"Actually, I only left twice. I left then, and then rejoined literally two years later for Going For The One."

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Donna Grant

"Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive."

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Donna Grant

"The price I have personally paid for these extra Sisyphean years has been prohibitive."

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Donna Grant

"I'll be sober ten years and married nine soon."

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Donna Grant

"I was thrilled, because I like the big screen and I could then move on to the next thing. It was the biggest break for me. In a way, though, I wish it had been a TV series because then you are working for five years."

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Donna Grant

"We should have gone over years before that. I always wanted to and I think most of the band did."

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Donna Grant

"Once again, stock markets have been threatened with extinction for almost 75 years, and I have found that stock markets are harder to kill than roaches."

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Donna Grant

"We used to get on planes, and they'd ask who we were, and we'd say, 'The Dave Brubeck Quartet', and they'd say, 'Who?' In later years they'd say, 'Oh', which amounts to the same thing."

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

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Roy Ayers
"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 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
"I always had this energy level that made me want to come to New York."

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Roy Ayers
"The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers."

Beauty

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Roy Ayers
"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
"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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Roy Ayers
"I'd definitely love to play in Nashville again. That would be really good."

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

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