Gary Wright
Gary Wright
Gary Malcolm Wrightis an American singer, songwriter and musician, best known for his 1976 hit songs "Dream Weaver" and "Love Is Alive", and for his role in helping establish the synthesizer as a leading instrument in rock and pop music. Wright's breakthrough album, The Dream Weaver, came after he had spent seven years in London as, alternately, a member of the British heavy rock band Spooky Tooth and a solo artist on A&M Records. While in England, he played keyboards...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth26 April 1943
CityCresskill, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band.
My goal is really to continue to make music. I really don't make music to have platinum records and all that kind of stuff. I've been there. I do it because I love music, and I love uplifting people through my music. That's my real goal.
Music is an extremely powerful force if used properly to uplift people. I believe music should be uplifting and not downgrading... it's a very, very powerful tool.
Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity.
My music and lyrics became an extension of this Indian philosophy.
The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads and piracy of music is terrible. It's stealing.
Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.
Sandy was a natural with organization of all the media passes and setting up the players for appearances, it was a really good fit for us since we'd already worked together. And it was really fresh to us because it was a new city and team.
Sometimes when you make a record and it's not successful, you just don't want to go through that process for a while. You want to have your wounds heal.
We needed that one! ... That hit at Lake Ozark was the hardest I've taken in a long, long time.
We've been focused on growing earnings, and we did that. Now it's time to grow deposits for a while.
I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled it, like Stevie Wonder. A lot of his stuff was on keyboards, but he used brass and he used other things as well. I was the first artist, also, to use drum machines. I was really the one who kind of started that whole thing.
I don't know anybody who didn't love Dave Brown. He was a special guy: a special player and a special person. He was a great guy to have around.
Baseball is a great way to kick off this community-wide event. We encourage everyone to bring their family and friends for a wonderful evening.