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Roy Ayers

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

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

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"A song is anything that can walk by itself."

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"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."

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"All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago."

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"This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway."

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"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."

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"I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too."

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"How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me."

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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

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"Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound."

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"I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music."

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