Sound Bite: Phil Ramone, Music Producer
Phil: Well I …for me its a start whole new …probably of a new generation of interactivity between us and the artist and the audience. You know somehow we lost the audience in the last few years, and yet there right there, music is so important to everybody…the art never goes away…and you need to correspond and be with your audience. Concert venues are gonna be both large and small. We need that cycle where I came out of the 60’s where kids played in a club and the guy let you play two shows a night and you weren’t good but you got better…and we can do that on the internet too. It’s just another great broadcast medium.

Sound Bite: Rev. Al Sharpton
Rev. Al : You go to music store and you look for the Jazz section, you look for the R & B section, you look for the hip-hop section…you look for Aretha she is in a category all by herself.. and she’s that as a humanitarian which Musicares is about.

Sound bite: Josh Groban, Singer
Josh: I think you know …myself along with everybody else who’s here and even those who aren’t here who have been inspired by her. Her influence is in her unique quality…and her unique soul…you listen to one note of Aretha Franklin and you know its Aretha… and you feel something.

Sound Bite: Herbie Hancock, 2008 Grammy Winner Best Album
Herbie: First of all the internet has the capacity for opening up a lot of new opportunities for young artists….new ways from them to own what they do….you know in the past that wasn’t possible….you make a contract with a record label and they owned the masters…but there’s new way to promote you songs…for example we have You Tube and Myspace….and linked in and ways for communites to get together and for people to get to know each other and to get to spread the word about what one individual is doing. So clever young minds will be able to discover even more ways to expose their music to the public. And I’m looking forward to that future…It’s a bright new day…it maybe the end of the old day….but what happens in the morning the sun comes up…it did today here in LA.

Sound Bite: Herbie Hancock, 2008 Grammy Winner Best Album

Sound Bite: Tony Bennett, Past MusiCares Person of the Year
Tony: Wonderful… it’s my favorite night of the Grammy’s because of Musicares it helps the less fortunate musicians that get down on their luck and they really help…it’s the best part of the Grammy’s…no matter what happens.

Sound Bite: CeCe Winans.
CeCe: When you hear a voice like that…first of all it makes you really think about is this what you want to do…(laughs)…because she is so great….you listen and think maybe I should do something else.

B-Roll: CeCe in suite., CU: jewelry.

B-Roll: Anthony Hamilton, shoes and suite.