We love Ariana. And shes a great artist, and shes been on many of our shows and shes very appropriately nominated this year, but you know, in putting all of these things together, theres always a lot of moving pieces and parts, but, Ill go back to my earlier statement, we dont wrap this show til Sunday morning, and so lots of things can happen and well see where we go.

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Andy Wiliams' smooth voice and casual style turned the songs he sang into timeless classics and made him one of America's top pop singers. ... The entertainment industry has lost a giant piece of its living history today, but Williams' legacy will forever be enshrined in the annals of music and television.

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We live in a time of fake news - things that are made up and manu... by Neil Portnow

We live in a time of fake news - things that are made up and manufactured.

We as a music community have our own issues about advocacy, copyright, intellectual property, being paid fairly for the work that we do.

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I support artistic freedom and always have. by Neil Portnow

I support artistic freedom and always have.

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The fact that there isn't a performance right [for the use of sound recordings on terrestrial radio] means there's hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign income that doesn't come to the artists in America.

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Because U.K. artists aren't compensated when their music is played on U.S. radio stations, U.S. artists aren't compensated when their records are played on U.K. stations based on the fact that there's no reciprocity. If that income came in, our artists would be paying income taxes on it. So if we can get a lot of policy on the radar, that may have some positive influence.

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Sometimes you don't want to believe everything you hear. by Neil Portnow

Sometimes you don't want to believe everything you hear.

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We don't, as musicians, in my humble opinion, listen to music based on gender or race or ethnicity, when you go to vote on a piece of music -- at least the way that I approach it -- is you almost put a blindfold on and you listen.

Throughout her exciting career, I have watched her become a powerful force within the music industry and beyond. As an artist who speaks to the power of music, we are thrilled to have her on board.

Regrettably, I used two words, 'step up,' that, when taken out of context, do not convey my beliefs and the point I was trying to make.

That's what's great about live television, whatever happens is part of the culture of the people in the room.