You grow and learn a lot about the industry and what happens behind closed doors over the years. Roy Ayers Read Quote
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. Roy Ayers Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Only a certain number of people go to a store over the period of a year. When a person sees my record on the shelf, it eliminates someone else’s record from being sold. It’s about continuing to try to find new ways to sell records. Roy Ayers Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Roy Ayers Read Quote
