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Prince Mention in Andre 3000's Rolling Stone Interview

"A few hours before the Coachella show, I get a message that Prince and Paul McCartney are going to be there. My spirit is not right, and idols are standing side-stage, so as the show started, I'm bummed. This is horrible. In my mind I was already gone to my hotel room halfway through.

"So Prince called a couple days after," he explained. "It was my first time actually talking to Prince. He said: 'When you come back, people want to be wowed. And what's the best way to wow people? Just give them the hits.'" Benjamin protested and said he didn't want to just go through the hits, but Prince advised him that he had been there himself and from experience, when you give an audience the hits first, an artist is able to do whatever he or she wants. "He broke it down like this: 'You're a grown man. You're either going to do it or you're not,'" Benjamin told the Times.

I knew from the start that I loved you with all my heart.
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Reply #1 posted 08/27/14 3:01pm

funksterr

Do as I say, not as I do. biggrin

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Reply #2 posted 08/27/14 5:32pm

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Prince mention in every Andre 3000 interview.

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Reply #3 posted 08/27/14 10:31pm

novabrkr

"Aim to please early".

That's what I always say.

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Reply #4 posted 08/28/14 5:49am

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novabrkr said:

"Aim to please early".

That's what I always say.

Yes but they generally mean other people rather than yourself razz

Heavenly wine and roses seems to whisper to me when you smile...
Always cry for love, never cry for pain...
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Reply #5 posted 08/28/14 8:01am

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funksterr said:

Do as I say, not as I do. biggrin

nod Apparently! lol

I knew from the start that I loved you with all my heart.
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Reply #6 posted 08/30/14 8:47am

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Just give them the hits. And then keep giving them the hits over and over and over. And then play other people's hits. And then get your background singers to sing other people's hits.
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Reply #7 posted 08/30/14 7:43pm

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Askani said:

Just give them the hits. And then keep giving them the hits over and over and over. And then play other people's hits. And then get your background singers to sing other people's hits.

- He gets a million for each show so he knows what he is doing. Only a fool would think that playing a large venue and performing unknown material would work.
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Reply #8 posted 08/30/14 7:56pm

RodeoSchro

You guys do know that Prince did an entire tour based on "I am not playing any hits", right?

It was called One Night Alone and while I enjoyed the hell out of it, it was played to mainly 2,000-seat venues. And not always sold out, either.

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Reply #9 posted 08/31/14 3:10am

Pentacle



Wouldn't it be great if these artists told the truth in the media: Yeah, Prince, he used to be great, he was my idol, but now, man oh man...

Like an intervention.

Stop the Prince Apologists ™
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