~TAVIS SMILEY~

"........very much a one-album deal .... we were just a distributor —

he delivered a finished album,

all done, and asked me to distribute it

— so it was very different from the normal [label/artist] relationship,

I cant really say I worked with him but

....He and I had a terrific one-on-one relationship

He was fascinated by music [business] issues: authorship,

ownership,

copyright,

compulsory licenses, and we spent hours talking about that

because he felt he had met someone who understood those things.

He was very educated about those things.

He said our conversations [about business] were so great and educational that they should be sold as CDs!

It was very warm — we hung out together during that period, we went to concerts."

"Prince was peerless as a musician, performer and songwriter.

He was clearly one of the all-time greats,

always mesmerizing,

magical and

cutting edge.

He was one-of-a-kind in every respect.

To know Prince personally was to know someone kind and gentle,

phenomenally brilliant and intellectually curious,

with every bone in his body loving music"

~Clive Davis~

"Prince...aww man..What a nice Guy ..

Prince is Allright with me..

..My Bigest Production was a song called "King Holiday" In celebration of

Martin Luther King....all the artists worked for free..A "We Are the World "

for Martin Luther Kings Holiday that had just been announced....

but we needed a video..

and we set about trying to raise the money..

but we couldnt raise it..

So...here comes Prince..

and Prince says

"well..Ill pay for it"

Prince Payed for the Video.!!!.

He payed Ninety Thousand Dollars for us to shoot this video..

straight out of his pocket..

He never asked for it back..

Hes not even on the song..

man I was like..

"this is a good dude"

you know what I mean..

He didnt have anything to do with it..He didnt produce it..

He just paid for the Video..

and Im so elated..

and later we hung out..He came to the video shoot..

and Im like..

"you know man..Thank you for that video ..thank you...thank you for doing that..."

He said..

"No Problem man..you know..its all good...Its Martin Luther King"

I felt like I had really accomplished something in my life..

that was the most meaningful thing..

you know..

and Prince Supported that..

he made it happen"

SO..

I will never forget him..

and Ill always have a special place in my heart for him..."

~Kurtis Blow~

CHOCOLATEBOX EDIT

[Edited 9/3/18 15:05pm]

"We were on a flight from Minneapolis to Los Angeles,

about a three-and-a-half-hour flight,

and we'd been up pretty late the night before,

but he wanted to go out to record.

On the plane, [he's] asking for pads and paper,

and so I get him a notebook and pen and he starts writing,

and he writes a poem and he hands it to me.

And I read it and I go,

"Well, you know, that's nice…sounds clever, good."

I hand it back to him.

Ten minutes, 15 minutes later, he hands me another poem.

I'm like, "Oh yeah, that's just as good as the first."

And I'm like, "Why does he keep handing me these poems?"

This goes on for the whole flight, and we land and he says,

"Do you mind if we go to the studio?"

—he was always cordial—

and I'm like, you know, "You can do whatever you want to do."

And he says,

"Well, I'll just be there for a few hours, and then we'll head to the house."

And so we go to the studio.

We were in there for three days, almost four days, straight.

When he's finished, I go into the studio and I'm listening to the music.

I asked him on the way home:

"Did you have all that in your head?

Not just the lyrics, not just the music,

not just the melodies, but the arrangement, everything?"

And he said,

"Yeah, you know, I have to get it out when it's in there or I can't sleep."

He had written [the first two album sides of] Sign o' the Times.

He had basically written an album in a three-and-a-half-hour plane ride."

~Gilbert Davison~

Lovejunky said:

"I wouldn’t be the woman or the artist

that I am

had I not worked with him or met him,"

"His legacy as someone who supported

and empowered female artists

is something we should always remember"

"He reminded me to Be Proud of being a black woman"

"He celebrates the woman in a very powerful and positive way."

"He had so much confidence in me that I never experienced

someone having in me,

at least at that point in my career,"

"I’m so used to being in a field where you don’t have

a lot of say and you’re told what to do and

you’re criticized for everything that you do.

I started to just blossom [with Prince] and

I felt like I could have this power, even within my field.

He did a lot for me, and did so much for ballet."

"He gave money to a school that I was close with at the time,

this small ballet school in Harlem,"

They were about to lose their school,

and he’s the reason that the school is still standing."

"WHen I met Prince for the first time..

I had never seen him perform...so

I approached this relationship as...

Well..here is this really hilarious quiet Guy..

Then I stepped on to the stage with him..

and I was like..

WOW..Ok..I get it now.."

~Misty Copeland~

“I feel like I learned so much about myself as a person and as a performer,” .

“I will forever hold onto those conversations and the time spent on the stage.

He just really pushed me to step outside of my comfort zone,

and to not be afraid to be an individual.

If I could believe and trust those words from anyone it would definitely be Prince.”

“I know that he’s so proud of me and where I’ve gotten in my career,”.

“He was forever reminding me, it’s okay to be an individual,

and just celebrating what it means to be a black woman.

I think that’s a big part of my confidence and my power.”

What was it like for you to work with Prince

on his 2009 music video for “Crimson and Clover”

and his “Welcome 2 America” tour?

"Amazing! I feel like he helped create the artist I am today

opened my eyes to looking at things from a different perspective

in a different way.It was absolutely incredible.I am so fortunate to have spent time with him."

Misty Copeland

As for her favorite Prince song,

Misty says there is one track that has a special significance to her.

“I’m going to say ‘The Beautiful Ones’

because that’s the song that I performed with him.”

The Beautiful Ones performed on Lopez Tonight, April 13th 2011 by

⚜PRINCE and Misty Copeland

'Prince's appreciation of the arts extended beyond music.

"I was playing with Frank McComb in a club in LA ....

Prince came to see us;

I got a chance to meet him in the break. It was crazy,

we’d just finished a set and here I was talking to Prince.

The way he talked about music was incredible and

so much of what he said resonated and I thought,

even at the time, that I would take what he said with me.”

He’s a remarkable talent, and he can sit with anyone

– producers, engineers, guitarists, piano players,

and talk to them in their own language.

It’s the result of a lifetime of working in and absorbing music.”

“Prince just loves to play"

"Josh and I have had nothing but the greatest time being

associated with Prince's organization,

He is so smart and so unbelievably talented.

I think some of the people who maybe get let go for whatever reason

tend to go negative about it,

probably because of some problem that's their own,

not his,

like being late for gigs or rehearsals,

some drama or other that's really their own rather than something he did."

“Having a bandleader that plays several instruments

has its advantages and disadvantages,”

“He’ll get behind the kit and say,

‘OK, you can roll on that snare at the beginning.

Then make a clean break or let it linger.

When he sits down and plays, he’s really saying,

‘This is the energy that I want; approach it like a big fat man.

Smash it like a big, fat dude!’

So you think,

‘OK, big, fat dude on drums’.

It’s relentless.”

~Cora Coleman Dunham~

NPG

“This was my first real boyfriend,

so I was tripping on all the emotional ecstasy

most girls get out of their system in high school.

Prince loved that I was so in love with being in love.

I’d never had my heart broken,

so I was open and unjaded.

Any old trick in the romance handbook

—a candlelit bubble bath,

rose petals on the sheets,

a sexy handwritten letter—none of the novelty had worn off for me.

I was thrilled with all the small gestures of affection,

and he enjoyed being appreciated.

There wasn’t much drama between us,

but I discovered that, if anything,

I danced better when I was mad, so we always ended up laughing it off after the show.

Somewhere around this time, he wrote a song called “Courtin’ Time”

that came out later on the Emancipation album,

and I was touched to hear an instrumental version

on a concert video just a few years ago.”

~Mayte Garcia~

"Talk about being connected to his fans,

talk about being in the moment,

talk about fearless,

talk about maybe the most sensitive of all the artists

and not afraid to show it,

but also just goes to show you how hard it is sometimes to be that.

And to be as famous as he was must have just been excruciating at times.

But I loved him and always will love him,

he's a big part of Minnesota."

~Louie Anderson~

Comedian

'He has been described as iconic, innovative,

controversial, unique, charismatic

and one of the driving forces of music for the last four decades.

'Yes, he was all of those things,

but he was also warm and generous,

gentle and kind and when he chose you as his friend, you were blessed.

'He was brimming with music he wanted to share

with the world and

so many artists and musicians have benefited from his vision.

I cherish all the times we spent together making music"

"He'll always be Unique

He'll always be a genius...

And I really think that when they are talking about MY Generation of Artists and Musicians,

there,s only gonna be a hanful of people that they're gonna refer to..

.in 20 years 30 years time...

and his names Gonna Definitely be one of them"

'I can't imagine Prince not being here.

His energy was so strong he never seemed to age or tire like the rest of us.'

'He was,

and is,

the epitome of a soul that came to us overflowing with love, and music, and light.'

~Sheena Easton~

"The only other person I spoke with or speak with more than

Prince is my mother,"

"This is the person I communicate with more than anyone."

Monday I was in a restaurant and videotaped

the restaurant's ambiance music which was one of his songs," .

"I emailed him, and I said,

'You know you're everywhere.'

He wrote back,

"But nowhere at the same time"

"There are just great things about him

I wish I could tell people, but he wanted them

to stay private.

He didn't want people to know all of the ways he

helped other people.

He did it as this silent angel

including how he helped me, in my life, on many occasions."

"I'm sorry for the world losing his gift,

but he's not gone.

He is not gone."

"I'm a lucky person that I have had a friend like this.

But it is not lost on me that he was much more than

music and I think that people know that."

~Tamron Hall~

[Edited 9/7/18 21:45pm]

"I tend to believe that when we die our souls hover

for at least a moment

if not longer before they either rest

or are recycled into the consciousness of an already living being

or maybe a newborn baby.

Isn't it amazing Prince shared his soul with us so deeply before his death,

and now after we will be replenished endlessly by both his legacy

and all that he still has to give from the beyond.

Thank you for sharing your life with us Prince.

Giving up your anonymity because you felt compelled to share your gift.

We learned so much.

You just found God early, he needed you upstairs to innovate in heaven. 🤘🏽🏍🚬🙏🏽"

~Lady Gaga~

Lovejunky puhleaze !!

-

Look what you've done with that overdose of positivity and love

now I want to kill someone !

-

Rogers recalls an artist who was enormously professional and respectful, quite unlike the sex fiend that was portrayed in the media. “He understood that an artist is a canvas for us to project our own desires and motives on to,” she says. “He was being the bold male that a lot of men wish they could be but society wouldn’t allow them to; he was being the hyper-confident male that a lot of women wish would find them attractive. He was letting us see this almost comic-book hero version of himself, so the real man could hide: a quiet, respectful, polite working man. I never heard him use profanity; he was not lecherous. He was personally conservative, I never even saw a Playboy magazine around the house. It used to make me sad that the impression in the 80s was that Michael Jackson was the safe one you could let your daughter go on a date with, but that you wouldn’t dare trust your daughter around Prince.”

.......

Source: The Guardian (online)

"Interview: sound engineer, Susan Rogers: 'He needed to be the alpha male to get things done'" Ben Beaumont-Thomas

Vannormal said:

Lovejunky puhleaze !!

-

Look what you've done with that overdose of positivity and love

now I want to kill someone !

-

Whatteva Floats ya Boat I guess...

RJP1205 said:

Lovejunky, this is by far my fav thread on the Org. There was a similar thread on Instagram that was removed before I got all the way through it. Sometimes the comments by Org members makes me wonder why they are even on a fan site. This thread is like a deep breath of fresh air.

Total JOY to come here on the daily...

Feel free to contribute if you feel...

xxxx

[...] Thankfully, we can cherish the 2007 memory of Prince’s performance, because, let’s face it, nothing will ever top it.

.......

The 2007 Super Bowl XLI saw the Indianapolis Colts trump the Chicago Bears 29-17, but perhaps the most victorious entertainment of the evening came from the Purple One himself.

.

“Can you make it rain harder?” Prince asked the production managers of the halftime event, hours before he was to perform the biggest performance of his career. It was one of those heavy, tropical rain and wind storms in the heart of Miami; but for Prince, it was a dramatic advantage to the pivotal performance that carried in over a 100 million television viewers alone.

.

“I was panicked. Prince was using four separate electric guitars; the stage was made out of a very slick tile, which when it got wet, was even more slippery,” explained one of the production managers. Along with the dancers, their heels, and all other electronic aspects involved, the state of the performance had a lot of reasons to worry.

.

Yet, Prince, obviously, pulled through with one of the most epic halftime performances of all time. His guitar ringing, his voice soaring, and his overall demeanor taking the audience by storm; the rain became less of a distraction and more of an intensely beautiful spectacle.

.

“He’s just one performer shaking the entire world,” described Jon Pareles, Senior Music Critic of the NY Times. Ultimately, Prince turned the horrific weather into his most powerful prop, mixing covers by Queen, The Foo Fighters, and Bob Dylan with originals hits like “Let’s Go Crazy” and “Purple Rain”. [...]

-Kendall Deflin, Live for Live Music (online)

Source:

Watch Prince Make It Rain During His Magical Super Bowl XLI Halftime Show Performance

Kendall Deflin

Sunday, February 4th, 2018

Link: https://liveforlivemusic....half-time/

Lovejunky said:

“This was my first real boyfriend,

so I was tripping on all the emotional ecstasy

most girls get out of their system in high school.

Prince loved that I was so in love with being in love.

I’d never had my heart broken,

so I was open and unjaded.

Any old trick in the romance handbook

—a candlelit bubble bath,

rose petals on the sheets,

a sexy handwritten letter—none of the novelty had worn off for me.

I was thrilled with all the small gestures of affection,

and he enjoyed being appreciated.

There wasn’t much drama between us,

but I discovered that, if anything,

I danced better when I was mad, so we always ended up laughing it off after the show.

Somewhere around this time, he wrote a song called “Courtin’ Time”

that came out later on the Emancipation album,

and I was touched to hear an instrumental version

on a concert video just a few years ago.”

~Mayte Garcia~

Love this quotation. Love the photo. Love the song "Courtin' Time".