"Sometimes you hear in the United States that in Columbia there is a war between rich and poor, between people that are defending the poor and the rich."

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They don't encourage quality today. When I was coming along, Columbia Records would sit with you and assume it would take two or three albums to get the act where it needed to be. Then the company would structure its promotion based on one, two or three years. They encouraged quality and innovation - that's why groups like the Beatles would use sitars, string orchestras and so forth.

— Ramsey Lewis