16 Quotes by Chris Blackwell

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    Universal is the biggest, most powerful record company by far and a very good company, but they don't sell outside the record stores.

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    I never liked the whole thing about pictures with the artists. You look back at an Elvis Presley record, and you don't see any producer credits, because the audience is not supposed to know about the producer credit.

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    Nobody was interested in playing Bob Marley on the radio. We had to tour him - that was the only way it could work.

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    I was touring a lot... I loved the touring because you could really feel the audience. You were much closer to everything.

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    Jamaica has the best coffee, the best sugar, the best ginger and some of the best cocoa in the world.

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    Running a farm is about solving a problem, and that's always interesting to me. But it's a constant process.

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    We didn't take care of our opportunities. When we needed to take care of the basketball, we didn't.

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