"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 Quotes #Smooth Jazz Quotes #Soul Quotes

“I feel displaced when I'm back in America, like a visitor. I feel like if I don't get a cup of tea I'm going to lose my mind.”
“Health is when it hurts in a new place every day.”
“When I'm at home, I don't discuss business. I don't talk business. I don't answer the phone. It's just me, my wife, my children, my dogs. That's my world. We go out, take a ride in one of the low riders or something. Totally different person than when I'm working. But the work comes to some headaches.”
“They would send me notes on what's going on, and we would pitch in and talk about what we wanted to talk about on the show. I just really did my homework. It was more like a real job for me. Doing this talk show was like, "Wow, this is what they do?!" I can't even imagine doing it every day.”
“The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship”
“I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath.”
“In the end, itâ€™s not about failure, itâ€™s about how much you love what you do.”
“One cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own.”

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