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Love Quote by Roy Ayers

"Having good health, being able to breathe and be happy, that's one of the most beautiful gifts. On top of that, I have the gift to play music and make people happy through that. I'm just telling you from my heart, I'm so in love with life"

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Roy Ayers isn’t selling hustle or mystique here; he’s puncturing it. In a culture that loves to crown artists as tortured geniuses, his “from my heart” insistence lands like a quiet rebuke: the real flex is lungs that work, mornings you get to wake up, a body that still says yes. He starts with the baseline - breathing - and by doing that he makes everything else, even music, feel like a bonus rather than a burden. It’s disarmingly plainspoken, but the simplicity is the strategy. You can hear a musician who’s spent decades on the road, in studios, in smoky rooms where “health” is never guaranteed and joy can be transactional.

The line “make people happy through that” frames music less as self-expression than as service, a kind of public utility. That’s deeply Ayers: his legacy sits in grooves designed to move bodies and soften days, the warm futurism of jazz-funk that treats pleasure as something worth engineering. There’s subtext, too, about survival and longevity. Ayers came up in an era when Black innovators routinely watched their work sampled, monetized, and rebranded by others; his focus on gifts and gratitude sidesteps bitterness without denying the stakes. It’s not naive optimism. It’s a veteran’s perspective: life is fragile, art is communal, and happiness - yours and theirs - is a serious accomplishment.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Ayers, Roy. (2026, January 16). Having good health, being able to breathe and be happy, that's one of the most beautiful gifts. On top of that, I have the gift to play music and make people happy through that. I'm just telling you from my heart, I'm so in love with life. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/having-good-health-being-able-to-breathe-and-be-122554/

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Ayers, Roy. "Having good health, being able to breathe and be happy, that's one of the most beautiful gifts. On top of that, I have the gift to play music and make people happy through that. I'm just telling you from my heart, I'm so in love with life." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/having-good-health-being-able-to-breathe-and-be-122554/.

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"Having good health, being able to breathe and be happy, that's one of the most beautiful gifts. On top of that, I have the gift to play music and make people happy through that. I'm just telling you from my heart, I'm so in love with life." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/having-good-health-being-able-to-breathe-and-be-122554/. Accessed 7 Feb. 2026.

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Roy Ayers (born September 10, 1940) is a Musician from England.

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