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Smokey Robinson

"Once you're a Motown artist, you're always a Motown artist."

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"Once you're a Motown artist, you're always a Motown artist."

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"Originally I was not writing songs for myself."
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"As a kid, this is what I wanted my life to be. Not in my wildest dreams did I ever dare to dream that it would be this."
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