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Smokey Robinson

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

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A.E. Samaan

"A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist."

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A.E. Samaan

"It's about finding great artists and being part of their careers."

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A.E. Samaan

"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."

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A.E. Samaan

"Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don't have any intentions as an artist."

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A.E. Samaan

"The industry is a menace to artists."

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A.E. Samaan

"I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own."

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A.E. Samaan

"These are all voluntary resources which help parents sort out the choices without infringing on the artists' rights to free speech, which is something that we respect."

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A.E. Samaan

"Negroes at last were on Broadway, and there to stay. We were artists and we were going a long way."

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A.E. Samaan

"An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else."

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A.E. Samaan

"I think they want to keep it separate, but I've never been a crossover artist for some reason."

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Smokey Robinson
"I've been speaking at churches for years, as well as juvenile jails, rehabs and hospitals, and I always talk about my faith. That is a declaration of my relationship with God."

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Smokey Robinson
"I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record."

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Smokey Robinson
"We're very physical creatures, and we worry about how we look sometimes more than our spiritual selves."

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Smokey Robinson
"The only thing you're taking out of here is your spirit and your soul, so we need to be conscious to try and develop that part of ourselves, because we're all spiritual creatures."

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

Artist

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Smokey Robinson
"Even if I don't release it myself, somebody else might hear it and want to record it. When you write a song, it gives it that potential."

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Smokey Robinson
"Once you're a Motown artist, that's your stigmatism, and I was there from the very first day."

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Smokey Robinson
"I had been stockpiling Gospel songs for other artists, and had planned to submit them to Gospel artists."

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Smokey Robinson
"I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the history of music."

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Smokey Robinson
"I left Motown because of the regime of people who were there."

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