66 ordspråk av David Sanborn
David Sanborn
And consequently there's not a lot of artist development, very little encouragement to take chances on anything, to do anything new or different. Same old, same old.
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And I think that in the case of these last few - the musicians I had - the reasons I used the same people I did on the two albums was I really felt that these guys were not only great players in their own right but really understood the concept of functioning as a band.
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And record companies are always quick to blame piracy and the Internet but I think that's only a small part of it. I think it's the corporate bottom line mentality.
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But certainly the idea of making records that had a mainstream appeal instrumentally was nothing that we invented.
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But hey, look, I became a musician because I love music.
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But I never had any illusions at that time that it was going to be how I was going to make a living. I thought, well, I'll make a solo record, and it'll be fun.
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I basically played the music that I felt all my life, and whatever label people put on it is kind of really none of my business.
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I did full demos of all the songs at home, and then I took the demos into the studio and played them for everybody, and we then went ahead and did live versions.
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I did the first album, and it did much better than anyone expected.
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I didn't go on the road until right after my second album.
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I do this because I love it, and at the end of the day, the fact that I can make a living at all doing this, I'm grateful for.
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I don't see any way out of that because I think the audience as a whole is not being served and isn't getting excited about going out an buying CD's, and for that matter, going out and going to concerts.
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I hope this doesn't sound like false humility, because I don't mean it to, but I'm just a member of the band.
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I just kinda like playing. I don't necessarily go on tour to promote my albums. I'm on the road all the time. The fact that I have a new record is out is a coincidence.
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I know guys that live in New York, but I never see them play because they're always out on the road. I run into them in Europe.
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