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Roy Ayers

"I'm celebrating my 40th year in show business this year."

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"Corporate rule number 7, survival of the fittest spoon. Those who follow reach nowhere."

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"There are two kinds of warriors: those on the battlefield, and those in the boardroom; both are out to win. But the age of King Alexander has gone, and the age of Bill Gates has come."

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"The ultimate profit from all of my businesses is to be happy and to make all of the customers happy."

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"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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"I always had this energy level that made me want to come to New York."
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"I think music all the time."
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"I was with PolyGram; that was the big label that I was with for the longest, like 12 years."
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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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"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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"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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"Now I get exposure first with people directly in the clubs. This is a unique situation for me."
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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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"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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