I refused to be disrespected. So, at 16, of course, I was a gentleman about it, but I told them and it cost me my job.
Frankie KnucklesI have worked with a lot of different great people. One of the things my partner, my manager Judy Weinstein, instilled in [David] Morales and myself is that the quality goes in before the name goes home.
Frankie KnucklesThere are two people that probably influenced me more than anybody out of all the artists out here: that's Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson.
Frankie KnucklesWell technology has changed a lot of things, making it possible for just about anyone to make music. But not everybody is a songwriter, so that puts me in a completely different ballpark than the other DJs out here that are writing and producing tracks. I don't stop at tracks, I try to complete the whole package with the song. So working at that level has put me in a completely different place.
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