Motown Quotes

I love funk and soul and Motown.

— Taron Egerton

I grew up listening to oldies, like Motown. That's from my mom.

— Ryan Lochte

I grew up with Cher and Motown, beautiful costumes.

— Tina Knowles

Motown was pop, Atlantic was R&B.

— Wilson Pickett

I feel Motown really exploited me.

— Brenda Holloway

Motown, Motown, that's my era. Those are my people.

— Hillary Clinton

Motown wasn't just pioneering a sound but a cultural dynamic.

— Suzanne de Passe

People still look at Michael Jackson as being a Motown artist.

— Smokey Robinson

I honed in on a great time, the Motown era, the '60s and '70s. That type of music has always been a…

— Raphael Saadiq

My dad listened to George Jones and Hank Williams, and of course all the Motown stuff was unavoidable.

— Uncle Kracker

Ron White was not one of the very first original members of the Motown staff, but eventually he was.

— Smokey Robinson

One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth

— Smokey Robinson

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

— Smokey Robinson

Motown's policy was to build one act at a time or their favorites.

— Brenda Holloway

I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown.

— L'Wren Scott

I thought wasn't nobody supposed to get gold records except those people on Motown, like Smokey Robinson and Diana Ross.

— Wilson Pickett

I'd heard a lot of Motown and Stax when I was a kid, but the more well-known end of it. On Jam…

— Paul Weller

Sometimes you're inspired by an old-school song that you want to chop up and make a sample out of it. I find…

— Bishop Briggs

Back in the day, Motown was on the pulse of young America. It wasn't about just dope contemporary. It was pop, it…

— Ne-Yo

My parents had a huge pile of records - vinyl! - that I loved, especially the Motown stuff, Steely Dan, Stevie Wonder,…

— Jonny Lang

For me, the highlight was meeting all the Motown acts, as I adore black soul music. I met Stevie Wonder who I…

— Tony Blackburn

My favorite period is when we lived in the land of the three-minute song. The Motown thing - I thought they were…

— Meshell Ndegeocello

I grew up in Ann Arbor, about 25 miles west of Detroit. And when you grow up in that area, you get…

— Mayer Hawthorne

Motown was about music for all people – white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to…

— Berry Gordy

It's marvelous when you visit Tokyo: they have these clubs, and they'll have 'Motown Night' or 'The Beatles - Totally Authentic and…

— Robert Palmer

One of my idols is my dad. All his work in Motown, and just the way he conducted himself as a human…

— Redfoo

I grew up around music. My father was a professional musician. We used to have a trailer house that we travelled in.…

— Timothy B. Schmit

You certainly don't hear any country music on pop radio today. But for a while you did, and it was a lovely…

— Jimmy Webb

I stumbled into soul music at a very young age. It had something that really spoke to me. Nowadays it's not only…

— Erik Hassle

Those original, black, spirited, defiant, rebellious musical masters. Chuck Berry was one of the first masters of Les Paul's new electric guitar;…

— Ted Nugent

I've bought clothes based on record covers. Particularly from the formative music that turned me onto it in the first place when…

— Paul Weller

Music has always been in my family, but it was mainly keyboards. I learned to play classical piano, but when I first…

— Suzi Quatro

There's no reason - not yet, anyway - to believe [Bob] Dylan himself endorses such an attitude; or that he would think…

— David Bennun

The first writers I knew about were Motown's Holland-Dozier-Holland.

— Lisa Stansfield

Well, I had an after hours club in Vancouver and when any of the Motown acts would call.

— Tommy Chong

Motown will always be a heavy-duty part of my life because those are my roots

— Smokey Robinson

There were a lot of great acts at Motown, and some of them were hard to get along with.

— Dennis Edwards

Kelly Clarkson definitely reminds me of Motown. She's pop, but she's also very, very soulful.

— La'Porsha Renae

'Let's Get It On' is a classic Motown single, endlessly repeatable and always enjoyable.

— Jon Landau

The biggest thing Motown did was change our social fabric: the way we interacted with each other as human beings.

— Brandon Victor Dixon