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Jay Kay

"I mean, I could just go round and use session musicians for every song, but I don't find that helps when it comes to setting up a band for live. Derrick has been with me for donkey's years."

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"I mean, I could just go round and use session musicians for every song, but I don't find that helps when it comes to setting up a band for live. Derrick has been with me for donkey's years."

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Donna Grant

"I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not."

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Donna Grant

"What I try to do is produce an atmosphere where musicians want to invest in what they do and give to the recording. I hire those musicians who I know will play something creative and interesting."

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Donna Grant

"I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted."

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Donna Grant

"Musicians don't respect a lot of the stuff that is on TRL and a lot of musicians think that stuff on the radio is not good musically so when musicians say that they like us it obviously feels good."

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Donna Grant

"We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour."

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Donna Grant

"The wise musicians are those who play what they can master."

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Donna Grant

"I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each."

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Donna Grant

"Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song."

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Donna Grant

"I lived in an area where there were a lot of rock musicians, and we got together regularly in our studios."

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Donna Grant

"I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues."

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Jay Kay
"My place in Scotland is in the middle of nowhere, so you've just got a keyboard, guitar, a little drum machine and you know if you can work stuff out like that, if you can hammer out songs that sound good just with those three things and a voice, you're on your way."

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Jay Kay
"I mean, I could just go round and use session musicians for every song, but I don't find that helps when it comes to setting up a band for live. Derrick has been with me for donkey's years."

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Jay Kay
"We spent a month in LA using a pool of musicians, a string arranger called Benjamin Wright, some great backing singers, and it gave tracks like Dynamite, which was written there, that kind of flavour."

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Jay Kay
"Toby not being there doesn't bother me, I mean I can work with anybody as long as we get along and as long as they've got an understanding of what I want and what I'm aiming for. To start with, when he left, it was difficult."

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