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"Once you're a Motown artist, you're always a Motown artist."
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"Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists."
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"I think it would be nice to sell 15 million albums as a solo artist. I'd have to deal with all the repercussions of that, but that wouldn't be too bad."
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"The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events."
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"There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible."
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"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."
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"To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now."
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"The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal."
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"In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition."
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"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."
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"A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist."
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"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."
Potential
"When you write a song, a song has longevity."
Longevity
"There's so many wonderful gospel people out there, and I don't necessarily want to compete with those people."
People
"Drugs are in every walk of life - doctors, lawyers, preachers, the guy who works for IBM, teenagers on the street, teenagers in school."
Life
"Motown will always be a heavy-duty part of my life because those are my roots."
Life
"Once you're a Motown artist, that's your stigmatism, and I was there from the very first day."
Artist
"I played golf all over Detroit."
Golf
"We're very physical creatures, and we worry about how we look sometimes more than our spiritual selves."
Spiritual
"I had been stockpiling Gospel songs for other artists, and had planned to submit them to Gospel artists."
Artist
"One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth."
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