Roy Ayers Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: September 10, 1940

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TimePeopleSongThinkWrongKnow

'The Haters' has some of the generalities of band experiences that I've had - the camaraderie, the grubbiness, the outsized collective ambitions and frequent painful collisions with reality - but very few of the specifics. I guess it was a way for me to take some of my experiences to their logical crazy extremes.

Jesse Andrews

MeCrazyRealityHatersWayBand

If someone's lying about something small, you don't know what else they're lying about. I'm a big girl, I can handle the truth - even if it's not good news.

Jennifer Morrison

GoodGirlTruthSmallSomeoneYou

I want people to know my truth. Unconditional love of God and each other.

Andra Day

LoveGodTruthPeopleKnowWant

I went to Brown to be a French professor, and I didn't know what I was doing except that I loved French. When I got to Paris and I could speak French, I know how much it helped me to establish relationships with Karl Lagerfeld, with the late Yves St. Laurent. French, it just helps you if you're in fashion. The French people started style.

Andre Leon Talley

StylePeopleMeFashionSpeakLoved

The show tune I can never get out of my head is 'Oh, What A Beautiful Morning' from 'Oklahoma!' I don't know why.

Megan Hilty

MorningBeautifulI CanKnowWhy

One of the reasons it is considered such a privilege to sit on a Man Booker jury is because it is famously rigorous. The judging is not a gig for lightweights. Not only are all five judges expected to have read all 155 books from beginning to end, but they have to be able to talk fluently about every book at length.

Amanda Foreman

BeginningManBookEndJudgingTalk

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

Stephen Covey

SuccessExperienceYouFindSaid

As a kid growing up St. Louis, Missouri, I lived in a predominantly black neighborhood. Any time people talked about slavery, it was always something like, 'If I was a slave, I wouldn't have been putting up with that. I would have been out in a heartbeat.' And it's like, sure, it's a very easy thing to say.

Sterling K. Brown

TimePeopleGrowing UpSlaveryBlack

I get really frustrated if people don't smile.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

SmilePeopleGetReallyFrustrated

I don't think you are ever really done working on something, especially if you can get back into rehearsal.

Tom Kitt

ThinkYouBackDoneSomethingGet

Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.

Moliere

LoveMoneyWritingFriendsYouLike

As a woman in Saudi Arabia, you have one of two options. You either lose your mind - which at first happened to me because I fell into a deep depression - or you become a feminist.

Mona Eltahawy

DepressionWomanMindMeDeepLose

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