James Brown is the perfect example of flashy but classy. Classy doesn’t have to mean boring. His gear was flamboyant but without being so over the top. The cape was probably the biggest part of his persona. He looked like Superman. Mayer Hawthorne Read Quote
I really don’t care at all what people call me as long as they’re listening to the music and talking about it. They can call me a space-jazz flautist. I don’t care at all. Mayer Hawthorne Read Quote
I think that what happens is that all of my modern influences blend together with the older soul influences and you get Mayer Hawthorne. Mayer Hawthorne Read Quote
Barry White, Smokey Robinson and Curtis Mayfield are big influences for me. But I’m also a metal head. I was in a bunch of punk rock bands. The Bee Gees, hip-hop and the Beach Boys are just as much of an influence on me as Smokey. Mayer Hawthorne Read Quote
I grew up in Ann Arbor, about 25 miles west of Detroit. And when you grow up in that area, you get a healthy dose of Motown automatically. Mayer Hawthorne Read Quote
My singing really seemed to connect with people, and it ended up as my main career, which I love. Mayer Hawthorne Read Quote
I just want to have fun and party with everyone around the world. That’s the only rule, to have fun. Mayer Hawthorne Read Quote
I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. What’s life without a sense of humor? Mayer Hawthorne Read Quote
I’m a serious student of music, a perfectionist in the studio, and I take the arrangement and production of it very seriously, down to the mixing and mastering even. But at the same time I’m having so much fun with it. I try not to take myself so seriously. Mayer Hawthorne Read Quote
