Roy Ayers Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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As a young girl, I did not think that 'Time Lord' would ever be on my CV.

Jodie Whittaker

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It is more important to engage the public positively with choice and competition to everyone than to be directed into a benefit for a minority.

Andrew Lansley

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It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.

Anatole Broyard

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I consider each performance to be an intimate conversation between me and the audience members.

Andra Day

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The courts don't remove children from their home because the child underperformed at school or required extra long walks or a game of basketball in order to blow off the steam all 5-year-olds have. It's because the parents were unfit, not the kids.

Angela Featherstone

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I enjoy watching competitive people. You watch 'em come and you watch 'em go, and how they try to be the best. How they handle when they're not. How they handle when they are. How they get along together on the court.

Tom Heinsohn

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My audience is much more center right, or centrist.

Chris Matthews

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Sasha gets a raw deal from the press. She makes one mistake in her program and people rip her for not pulling it off when it counts. But she never falls apart. She never just completely folds and misses everything. Usually it's just one mistake.

Brian Boitano

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I don't look at myself as a hero or smart person. I have a seventh-grade education, but I've had a lot of fun.

Bobby Heenan

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Ocean acidification is often referred to as osteoporosis of the oceans because as acidity rises, shell building creatures such as lobster, oyster, crab, shrimp, and coral are unable to extract the calcium carbonate from the water that they need to build their shells and are thus unable to survive.

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

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I don't have a religion, but I respect them.

Paul Watson

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It's so weird how our existence hinges on just absolute crazy chance, but it feels so essential. It's like, 'Nothing would be here if you weren't here,' because you are the centre of your universe.

Sheila Heti

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