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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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"There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years."

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"I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor."

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"It took me years to figure out that you don't fall into a tub of butter, you jump for it."

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"I must have done everything I had. You go through years where you go through everything you've ever written."

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"For the last few years, it's been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you're in with the cool crowd, you can't be happy."

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"I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years."

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"I've been devoted to Alison Krauss for many, many years."

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"Best two rock voices I've heard in a last few years both have been from grunge bands: it's Eddie Vedder and the other one is Chris Cornell from Soundgarden."

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"I was very surprised that for a while I could only get cast as straight. It was that way for a few years."

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"Look at me, I'm getting defensive about something that happened so many years ago, somebody said. I'll have to find out who that was and if he's still alive."

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

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"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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"DJs and people in the street know what they like."

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

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

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"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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"Now I get exposure first with people directly in the clubs. This is a unique situation for me."

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