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"But I listen to everything, I listen to all artists that come along."
"Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes."
"The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist."
"I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit."
"Country artists, I met a lot of them when I was five, six years old. I had an uncle who was a country and western singer and I met Lefty Frizzell when I was five or six years old in those shows that would come through Toronto from Nashville."
"In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition."
Explore more quotes by Smokey Robinson
"We're very physical creatures, and we worry about how we look sometimes more than our spiritual selves."
"And I can say this, most of the people who have recorded my songs are songwriters themselves."
"Drugs are in every walk of life - doctors, lawyers, preachers, the guy who works for IBM, teenagers on the street, teenagers in school."
"That's because we did not set out to make black music. We set out to make quality music that everyone could enjoy and listen to."
"When someone picks up one of my songs and records it, I'm a flattered man, it's a blessing to me."
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