Most artists have contracts directly with the record company, and when they do music, all of their m...
ROY AYERS I'm celebrating my 40th year in show business this year.
ROY AYERS I was with PolyGram; that was the big label that I was with for the longest, like 12 years.
ROY AYERS I generally sell my records online or at the show. You can undersell the distributor and the stores,...
ROY AYERS I don't think I'm really so unique. If every black person looked at their life they would qu...
ROY AYERS I always had this energy level that made me want to come to New York.
ROY AYERS Back in the day, I used to be in the studio recording 20 hours a day. And that was all of the time. ...
ROY AYERS A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.
ROY AYERS You grow and learn a lot about the industry and what happens behind closed doors over the years.
ROY AYERS I've been sampled so much and I'm glad it's happened, it's a great compliment.
ROY AYERS Having good health, being able to breathe and be happy, that's one of the most beautiful gifts. ...
ROY AYERS I was being an artist, being sensitive and technical as artists are. I'm sure Leonardo Da Vinci ...
ROY AYERS I don't like rap that you can't understand. The youth is so quick and alert.
ROY AYERS Artists don't always know. Almost every song I ever recorded that was a hit at the majors that t...
ROY AYERS Some people really trip on success or popularity. My friends would talk to me about that, about trip...
ROY AYERS Now I get exposure first with people directly in the clubs. This is a unique situation for me.
ROY AYERS I think music all the time.
ROY AYERS I still look good. I'm trippin', but people tell me that all the time. So check it out, I...
ROY AYERS I couldn't get my album played over the so-called smooth jazz stations. Jazz stations would not ...
ROY AYERS DJs and people in the street know what they like.
ROY AYERS It's a wonderful feeling just being in this creative motif.
ROY AYERS What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African ...
ROY AYERS I'd definitely love to play in Nashville again. That would be really good.
ROY AYERS Soul has no musical geographical or racial boundaries.
ROY AYERS I don't trip on that much. I just like to enjoy life and be happy.
ROY AYERS The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, ar...
ROY AYERS I don't trip on that much. I just like to enjoy life and be happy.
ROY AYERS I don't think I'm really so unique. If every black person looked at their life they would quickly di...
ROY AYERS I don't like rap that you can't understand. The youth is so quick and alert.
ROY AYERS I couldn't get my album played over the so-called smooth jazz stations. Jazz stations would not play...
ROY AYERS Having good health, being able to breathe and be happy, that's one of the most beautiful gifts. On t...
ROY AYERS Back in the day, I used to be in the studio recording 20 hours a day. And that was all of the time. ...
ROY AYERS Artists don't always know. Almost every song I ever recorded that was a hit at the majors that the p...
ROY AYERS The majors, they have to control the distribution, the record outlets, the radio and, in some cases,...
ROY AYERS I have an addiction to caffeine.
BILL AYERS That is one hard team to guard. If you come out and guard them, they go to the basket, and if you do...
ALAN AYERS It was a great season and a great game. It's a shame that someone had to lose this game and it's goi...
ALAN AYERS I really normally have four kids that can score. Today, the kids' shots just weren't falling. I thou...
ALAN AYERS Jamie had a little bit of a shot and she pushed the shot a little bit, and I thought (Hanna) did a g...
ALAN AYERS Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying...
BILL AYERS Imperialism or globalization - I don't have to care what it's called to hate it.
BILL AYERS Honestly, I just assume that whatever is going to happen to me is going to happen. There it goes: so...
KEVIN AYERS England is so defined, the class system, your education. I think what was unique about the Canterbur...
KEVIN AYERS Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your p...
BILL AYERS Terrorists don't advise the passengers on board that there's a bomb on board. They just blow it up.
BOB AYERS What happens if a hacker in the U.K. breaks into a system in South Africa, or in the U.S.? ... Where...
BOB AYERS All of that stuff about James Bond, that's Hollywood. You don't want anyone standing out in the inte...
BOB AYERS Some nation states prohibit the police from collecting information on their own citizens. But they d...
BOB AYERS The nice thing about being detained in Canada is it's like being in a Days Inn; it's very cl...
BILL AYERS Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if e...
BILL AYERS Norman is the guy we've been waiting to sign. He comes from a quality program; Coach Emmanuel Davis ...
JOHN AYERS Pooled funds are difficult to pull off because you're hitting up people for money but giving them li...
JOHN AYERS We played solid in the first half and shot the ball well. We were active on the glass and got a few ...
JOHN AYERS It hurt us deeply because the family was actually a part of our family at the veterans of foreign wa...
JOHN AYERS I think that the basic philosophy was very good. It was just be nice to each other, and don't step o...
KEVIN AYERS Soft Machine were going more in the direction of fusion jazz and I didn't like that.
KEVIN AYERS We had literary references, so we knew what we were talking about. We could quote things, talk about...
KEVIN AYERS That was something. As opposed to nothing.
KEVIN AYERS These were all middle-class kids from literary backgrounds, joining this sort of train going by, thi...
KEVIN AYERS Jody helps us out a lot,
DAVID AYERS That's totally it, ... Some people say, 'Whoa! That was great! Thanks a lot.' Then they go over and ...
DAVID AYERS I was old and fat when I started, ... This makes you young ---- and not fat.
DAVID AYERS Trapeze High Club. It's the best way to get high.
DAVID AYERS The music we made then was so amateurish, compared to the rest of mainstream pop or rock and roll. B...
KEVIN AYERS You got nothing to lose, so you might as well just go out there and just keep working hard, ... Hope...
MICHAEL AYERS I don't think I have the chance to be making this team, but I think it's more of a learning experien...
MICHAEL AYERS That was funny, ... I started laughing immediately. It's always been fun coming to BU and playing he...
MICHAEL AYERS It was tough, ... I didn't enjoy it all that much just because we struggled a lot as a team, but tho...
MICHAEL AYERS With only one loss to graduation, we should be even stronger this year.
BRETT AYERS Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the s...
BILL AYERS Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a...
BILL AYERS We live in a place that has so many unanswered questions. Why did Allison victimize this man? Why di...
ANNETTE AYERS A group went in overnight and overpowered the jailer in Dobson and took his keys. It was said that p...
ANNETTE AYERS Allison comes upon him somewhere on the street and pulls his pistol out and shoots him twice in fron...
ANNETTE AYERS But when there's a Democratic nominee we very much look forward to debating all the issues.
NICK AYERS It is a genuine shocker... I don't think anyone anticipated a decline of this magnitude.
WAYNE AYERS From the Fed's point of view we've had head-fakes before -- I think they want to see a more stable e...
WAYNE AYERS I think you would be hard-pressed to find an economist, aside from the supply-siders, who would argu...
WAYNE AYERS I suspect they will not have a neutral bias; they will indicate risks are on the downside. I think w...
WAYNE AYERS He's instantly recognizable in financial circles and has international stature.
WAYNE AYERS The good news is that this is going to go directly to the corporate bottom line. That's a real plus ...
WAYNE AYERS This is the third decline in the last four months. Again, it's worrisome, but not surprising.
WAYNE AYERS We'll probably have a moderate-paced recovery. I couldn't agree more with the Greenspan's forecasts ...
WAYNE AYERS I don't think it got to the point where it was serious. We had some conversations on the phone. I we...
RANDY AYERS Like I said at the time, I was disappointed in the timing of it. It's all good memories for me. I ha...
RANDY AYERS I had never really been in there. I had never been in the other locker room. It's a little strange.
RANDY AYERS When I got fired, I was a little disappointed with the timing of it. Other than that, it's all been ...
RANDY AYERS Being from Springfield, you always followed people you know.
RANDY AYERS No, not really. I'm happy for Mo. I hope people will have some patience with his situation. I really...
RANDY AYERS Defensively, the kids came ready to play.
MIKE AYERS I know it sparks me. Just seeing him run around and be a goof. He hits people, fights people, then j...
MIKE AYERS Just all muscle-related stuff in my neck and back. Nothing was broken, thank God.
MIKE AYERS We were coming back (in 2002) and not a lot of guys were heralded as big time players and we were fl...
MIKE AYERS Hopefully, with a combination of the guys who do return and the freshmen, we'll come up with that ri...
MIKE AYERS Offensively, we just didn't execute at the level that we needed to. There were too many bad snaps an...
MIKE AYERS My head was turned toward the puck and I saw him out of the corner of my eye. He got a pass, the puc...
MIKE AYERS I'm not really an injury type of guy. This year it seems like I'm getting the brunt of it.
MIKE AYERS They should never trade a guy like that, because every night he puts it on the line. He's fun to wat...
MIKE AYERS It's a pretty day, but the football wasn't as pretty as we would have liked.
MIKE AYERS To me, the business cycle is working as it always does, absent an external shock. Inventory liquidat...
WAYNE AYERS Productivity growth helps keep inflation at bay and allows real incomes to grow, but it makes busine...
WAYNE AYERS At labor market turning points, the household survey does better because it picks up self-employed w...
WAYNE AYERS I don't know what happened.
BRANDON AYERS We've got a lot of confidence, but the third time's always the hardest.
BRANDON AYERS It gives us an edge on everybody because we've been here so much.
BRANDON AYERS There are two real targets for intelligence: the Islamic world and China. It's pretty clear that the...
BOB AYERS It's a recruitment pitch, it's a call to arms, it's telling the Muslim community to get more active.
BOB AYERS It would, in effect, be an instant press conference if they were to do something,
BOB AYERS You go pay him a visit,
BOB AYERS with a brick wall.
BOB AYERS They can use the bombings to again push Tony Blair on the issue of Iraq.
BOB AYERS I really don't want to answer that question one way or another,
BOB AYERS There's already a lot of stimulus in the pipeline, and there's more to come. So there appears to be ...
WAYNE AYERS I think if you take those two things together, there is some hope.
WAYNE AYERS I think the general message here is that despite the fears about a low savings rate, the consumer co...
WAYNE AYERS Productivity always slows as the economy slows. If labor and wage costs are still on the rise and pr...
WAYNE AYERS They've got more room to move, and they will move. That's what they've always done in past recession...
WAYNE AYERS I think the Fed felt this was not the time to be cautious and conservative.
WAYNE AYERS Mainframes are pretty bulletproof and are easier to support than a lot of PCs.
BILL AYERS If we lose one unit, it takes 32 to 63 people off the phones.
BILL AYERS We try to keep the orders flowing. If service representatives are sitting and waiting for the screen...
BILL AYERS We do 40% of our entire business during the fourth quarter.
BILL AYERS In terms of his importance to the (extremist) cause...he was a facilitator and agitator.
BOB AYERS I'm not sure Taylor has the political savvy for the job.
WAYNE AYERS It's the one and only tax that you get to vote directly on. Every other form of taxation that comes ...
STEVE AYERS Bryant is getting very close to 200 percent of its capacity, essentially another elementary school.
STEVE AYERS The ones that are most critical we want to work on first, then we'll start to turn our attention to ...
STEVE AYERS The infrastructure starts to suffer. The faculty suffers. The administration suffers. Ultimately the...
STEVE AYERS People ask for a guarantee, and there is none.
STEVE AYERS You are critically over capacity at this school. That can only go on for so long.
STEVE AYERS In areas with no growth, we're bringing the students to the seats.
STEVE AYERS I think their desired stance is to stand pat for an extended period of time rather than cut rates, u...
WAYNE AYERS There's no case for no cut at all at this point. There have been better economic numbers, but [polic...
WAYNE AYERS This liquidation has been so sharp, so severe, not just in this last quarter, but over the past year...
WAYNE AYERS I find some unity with Ron Paul.
BILL AYERS Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be.
BILL AYERS I wish I had been wiser. I wish I had been more effective, I wish I'd been more unifying, I wish...
BILL AYERS Chicago '68 was a relatively small demonstration for its time, but I've talked to millions o...
BILL AYERS I think (Fed Chairman) Alan Greenspan has made it all but official, we'll get another rate cut in Ju...
WAYNE AYERS We expect to be even deeper in the jumps and hurdles this year with the record number of girls out f...
BRETT AYERS The good thing about being a pessimist is that I'm either always right, or pleasantly surprised.
ROBIN AYERS A huge win for us and our program, and a huge confidence builder. We've been trying to get our kids ...
DAMON AYERS It was a hard-fought game, and them being the good team they are, they made a run. We came down the ...
DAMON AYERS We really prepared for their defense. But it sure didn't show tonight.
DAMON AYERS I didn't respond to people thrusting microphones at me and asking me questions that were unanswe...
BILL AYERS I was arrested in 1965 for opposing the war in Vietnam. There were 39 of us arrested that day. But t...
BILL AYERS Terrorists destroy randomly.
BILL AYERS Nixon probably was a nice guy.
BILL AYERS We should open our eyes, see what's in front of us, and act.
BILL AYERS I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans.
BILL AYERS I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.
BILL AYERS I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna.
BILL AYERS I don't regret setting bombs.
BILL AYERS I think I am a radical. I have never deviated from that. By radical, I mean someone trying to go to ...
BILL AYERS I didn't kill innocent people.
BILL AYERS Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist w...
BILL AYERS I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.
BILL AYERS I would say for the young: Don't be straight jacketed by ideology. Don't be driven by a stru...
BILL AYERS It's amazing where the paranoid mind can take you.
BILL AYERS Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.
BILL AYERS We found no smoke alarms on the second level. We found a smoke alarms on the first-floor level that ...
LLOYD AYERS He wasn't deceased. When we got him out, he had a shot. He died at the hospital.
LLOYD AYERS We had a citizen that we believe was trying to fight a fire when they should have been calling us an...
LLOYD AYERS Every Dog has a day and every human has a life. It all depends on what you want to be. The strange t...
ROY Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like th...
ROY LICHTENSTEIN What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?
ROY ROGERS Who is a professional? A professional is someone who has a combination of competence, confidence and...
BUNKER ROY Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds.
ARUNDHATI ROY Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN I think the kind of landscape that you grew up in, it lives with you. I don't think it's tru...
ARUNDHATI ROY Gentlemen, I find the law very explicit on murdering your fellow man, but there's nothing here a...
ROY BEAN Hang 'em first, try 'em later.
ROY BEAN And Fall, with her yeller harvest moon and the hills growin' brown and golden under a sinkin'...
ROY BEAN I know the law... I am it's greatest transgressor.
ROY BEAN Time will pass and seasons will come and go.
ROY BEAN The first voice they hear is mine, the first touch they feel is mine, the first human face they see ...
ROY HORN I don't want to play games with anybody, to our fans, to Pierre Lacroix, or any other NHL team t...
PATRICK ROY A big part of my decision is not made about whether I'm able to coach in the NHL or if I'm r...
PATRICK ROY I adore this adventure, I adore working with youth. For me it's a daily challenge, working to he...
PATRICK ROY He punched me. If that's his best punch, he'll be in trouble some day.
PATRICK ROY My quality of life here in Quebec City is extraordinary.
PATRICK ROY I am really focused on how I can improve myself and the world around me.
RACHEL ROY I have always admired the way women put outfits together.
RACHEL ROY I always keep a woman's body in mind, accentuating her best features.
RACHEL ROY I care about how you feel when you're wearing something, because I think that if you feel confid...
RACHEL ROY I dress women the way I see them and the way I envision them from day one, thus my customer knows th...
RACHEL ROY If you want to play it safe, mix a lot of colors in the same tone and that is such an easy way to fe...
RACHEL ROY I believe clothing tell a story.
RACHEL ROY I am inspired by life, past experiences, what's to come, women around me, art, colors, paintings...
RACHEL ROY You should always feel confident in everything you wear, no matter what trend you fit or don't f...
RACHEL ROY Not everyone has to be a model and a designer, there are so many other options that are great and lo...
RACHEL ROY I've always loved fashion so much and I didn't have access to the kind of fashion I really w...
RACHEL ROY I realize I never stand out in a room unless I'm feeling balanced, centered and happy. It sounds...
RACHEL ROY As far as things I avoid, I always avoid following trends just because they're trends.
RACHEL ROY I think that a woman wears so many hats, we have so many aspects to us that we're not just one t...
RACHEL ROY If I didn't love the hourglass, I wouldn't love myself.
RACHEL ROY When I look at pictures when I was younger, I do the quintessential cringe.
RACHEL ROY I would not invest in any shoe that is too trendy.
RACHEL ROY I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people...
RACHEL ROY At the end of the day, I want to create collections that, although I am inspired by very creative wo...
RACHEL ROY