I'm interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think it's the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really can't be this way.


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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
Business and the state have a common interest; not an adversarial interest.
ROY BARNES
Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and...
ARUNDHATI ROY
There is absolutely no doubt that Robert Mugabe and ZANU-PF have lost the popular support of the peo...
ROY BENNETT
I am not naive enough to settle for anything less than a reasonable valuation of my worth.
ROY KEANE
If a great outfit gets you one step closer to feeling good about yourself, then it's worth every...
RACHEL ROY
Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good thing...
DEEP ROY
Putting together a sustainable budget requires that we all work together, that we focus our scarce r...
ROY BLUNT
I've always tried to work hard. I'm not trying to show anybody up or do something spectacula...
ROY HALLADAY
You have been tried by twelve good men and true, not of your peers but as high above you as heaven i...
ROY BEAN
The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised s...
ROY JENKINS
The mullahs of the Islamic world and the mullahs of the Hindu world and the mullahs of the Christian...
ARUNDHATI ROY
It was great to finally get it, because I heard most of the guys already got it who were on other te...
ANDRE ROY
Sometimes it's hard to get going because it's early, but I think once you're in the warm-up, you're ...
ANDRE ROY
That's how we did it when we were kids, outdoors on the pond or whatever.
ANDRE ROY
It's good now to keep a positive attitude and have fun.
ANDRE ROY
Obviously, he's the star player on our team. Wherever he goes, he's an attraction. Teams, I think, a...
ANDRE ROY
I had to do something. (Neil) said, 'Your guys are running our guys.' I told him, in the playoffs, t...
ANDRE ROY
I tried to go backhand and maybe I got hooked. I just kind of tried to go backhand and it just slid ...
ANDRE ROY
I just went on the ice and drove the net. I don't know if I was hooked, but I tried to go back and i...
ANDRE ROY
I've been on teams like Ottawa and Tampa Bay, and when we played the last place team we'd think, all...
ANDRE ROY
Tomas did a good job sticking up for Sid, and it's good to see the guys stick up like that.
ANDRE ROY
He was shot at by his real brother just at the entrance of his residence.
AN ROY
We have found spare parts for an IED but the materials were as yet unassembled.
AN ROY