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Roy Ayers

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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


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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


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I think music all the time.


— Roy Ayers


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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


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I was with PolyGram; that was the big label that I was with for the longest, like 12 years.


— Roy Ayers


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I'd definitely love to play in Nashville again. That would be really good.


— Roy Ayers


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I'm celebrating my 40th year in show business this year.


— Roy Ayers


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I've been sampled so much and I'm glad it's happened, it's a great compliment.


— Roy Ayers


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It's a wonderful feeling just being in this creative motif.


— Roy Ayers


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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


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During the 2000s and 2010s Ayers ventured into house music collaborating with such stalwarts of the genre as Masters at Work and Kerri Chandler. Roy Ayers performed a solo on the John "Jellybean" Benitez production of Whitney Houston "Love Will Save The Day" from her second multi-platinum studio album Whitney. The documentary is planned to be released in early 2014.

Ayers began his career as a post-bop jazz artist releasing several albums with Atlantic Records before his tenure at Polydor Records beginning in the 1970s during which he helped pioneer jazz-funk.

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