Roy Ayers famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.
-- Roy Ayers

#People #True Beauty #Messengers
A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.
-- Roy Ayers

#Writing #Artist #Hip Hop
Soul has no musical geographical or racial boundaries.
-- Roy Ayers

#Soul #Musical #Boundaries
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.
-- Roy Ayers

#People #Records #Causes
I don't trip on that much. I just like to enjoy life and be happy.
-- Roy Ayers

#Travel #Journey #Enjoy Life
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.
-- Roy Ayers

#Play #Smooth Jazz #People
I've been sampled so much and I'm glad it's happened, it's a great compliment.
-- Roy Ayers

#Compliment #Glad #Happened
DJs and people in the street know what they like.
-- Roy Ayers

#People #Streets #Knows
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.
-- Roy Ayers

#Beautiful #Heart #Love Life
Most musicians count at the beginning, and never count and talk to their musicians after that. They only talk to them at the end of the song. But I would count with them and talk.
-- Roy Ayers

#Song #Musician #Ends
I was being an artist, being sensitive and technical as artists are. I'm sure Leonardo Da Vinci did that. Artists don't always feel the same as others feel about their work.
-- Roy Ayers

#Artist #Sensitive #Leonardo
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.
-- Roy Ayers

#Long #Records #Back In The Day
I still look good. I'm trippin', but people tell me that all the time. So check it out, I'm 63, and still kicking. I've been putting records out every year.
-- Roy Ayers

#Years #Kicking It #People
I think music all the time.
-- Roy Ayers

#Thinking
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.
-- Roy Ayers

#Journey #People #Stuff
I don't like rap that you can't understand. The youth is so quick and alert.
-- Roy Ayers

#Rap #Youth
What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin, but influenced by 250 years of slavery, as well as other forms of racial oppression.
-- Roy Ayers

#Years #Long #Soul
It's a wonderful feeling just being in this creative motif.
-- Roy Ayers

#Creativity #Creative #Feelings
I'd definitely love to play in Nashville again. That would be really good.
-- Roy Ayers

#Nashville #Play #Would Be
I couldn't get my album played over the so-called smooth jazz stations. Jazz stations would not play it. You don't always know who you're making that soul connection with.
-- Roy Ayers

#Play #Smooth Jazz #Soul
But I did mine through a production company. All the music I did, I gave to the production company. Then the production company would give the record company the album. I used to do all my albums like that. It was fantastic. But now, understand, I have never planned to do anything with these other tapes. The one that are released, like the Virgin Ubiquity you have there, I wasn't going to do anything with that music. One day, I was talking to this guy that owns BBE over in England, and I said I've got some tapes and stuff that you might be interested in, and he went berserk.
-- Roy Ayers

#Talking #Ubiquity #Giving
I always had this energy level that made me want to come to New York.
-- Roy Ayers

#New York #Energy #Levels
Now I get exposure first with people directly in the clubs. This is a unique situation for me.
-- Roy Ayers

#Unique #People #Clubs
Artists don't always know. Almost every song I ever recorded that was a hit at the majors that the promotional people picked I didn't think it would be a hit. I was wrong every time!
-- Roy Ayers

#Song #Artist #Thinking

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