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"Once you're a Motown artist, you're always a Motown artist."
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"I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude."
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"I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor."
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"Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back."
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"For us chess players the language of artist is something natural."
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"A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one."
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"It's nice to get a response from the artists that I cover."
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"I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about."
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"That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen."
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"When I accept a role, I feel that as an artist I have to submit completely to the tutelage of my director. And while I expect to be heard and encouraged and honored, at the end of the day, man, it's the way the director wants it."
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"I didn't want to be an artist."
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"As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money."
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"Motown will always be a heavy-duty part of my life because those are my roots."
Life
"I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record."
Music
"So I wanted to sing inspirational music, and that's exactly how I approached it - only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God."
Inspirational
"Once you're a Motown artist, you're always a Motown artist."
Artist
"In fact, I wouldn't really call this a Gospel album, I call it more an inspirational album."
Inspirational
"We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives."
Temptation
"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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"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."
God
"I left Motown because of the regime of people who were there."
People
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