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

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"I live in New York simply because I don't know any better. I moved there when the show went off the air a couple of years after that."

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"Well, these days, if you're away five years, you might not be able to get back."

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"I'm the worst person to ask about how to get noticed. It took me 25 years."

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"I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years."

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"Warp was important to Thom about two years ago when he was looking for different sounds."

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"So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on."

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"I've been around the block a lot and I've had a merry trail for 55 years."

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"At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology."

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"I started playing harp about fourteen years ago."

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"It wasn't that I ever knew I'd be at the Met for 20 years, or 30 years, or 40 years, or anything like that."

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"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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