Motown Quotes

I would describe my sound as classic Motown.

— La'Porsha Renae

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

— Hillary Clinton

I loved Motown. I loved the musicality and the sound.

— Jeff Beck

I feel Motown really exploited me.

— Brenda Holloway

Motown was pop, Atlantic was R&B.

— Wilson Pickett

I love funk and soul and Motown.

— Taron Egerton

We are all big Motown fans.

— Coy Bowles

I grew up with Cher and Motown, beautiful costumes.

— Tina Knowles

My mom taught me every dance move I've ever known to the Motown hits.

— Hannah Bronfman

We got really excited by Motown and early '60s soul music that was fun sounding.

— Ryan Ross

I listen to a lot of oldies stuff. Some Motown, Michael Jackson, jazz, etc.

— Jaime Harrison

Motown was the mecca. It was every writer's dream to work there.

— Valerie Simpson

We call 'Ain't No Mountain' the golden egg that landed us at Motown.

— Nickolas Ashford

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

— Smokey Robinson

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

— Smokey Robinson

I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.

— Gary Oldman

I never went to the Beatles' concerts to scream. I never screamed at anybody's show. I was on my feet with the…

— Linda Ronstadt

I grew up when the whole Motown thing was huge. The charts in those days were dominated by groups more than solo…

— Simon Cowell

When we were first started we were doing a lot of Motown stuff, but actually playing it more in a rock way.…

— Roy Wood

Everyone you talk to in the world, whether they know it or not, because the catalog is so vast, a lot of…

— Brandon Victor Dixon

There were many stars in Motown's firmament - among them, Stevie, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Martha Reeves and Diana Ross - but…

— Jon Landau

I want to bring that old soul back, the meaningful lyrics and all of that. And I can't think of a better…

— La'Porsha Renae

I love Motown, but I've obviously always been more of a Memphis soul fan. If it's Stax or Motown, I go Stax.

— Justin Townes Earle

A big part of the Motown formula was, they took music and turned it into this sort of automotive assembly line. They…

— Mayer Hawthorne

My musical influence is really from my father. He was a DJ in college. My parents met at New York University. So…

— Talib Kweli

I stand humbled on bended knee but, of course, the response to that would be 'Duh!' And to be given that incredible…

— Ted Nugent

I grew up not far from where Motown was founded, maybe 300 miles from Detroit and I've always liked - I used…

— Rick Danko

We came from the '60s era, when we started and made so many hits. The song value from the '60s was so…

— Mike Love

I grew up listening to a lot of that stuff, Motown and Stooges. But also early rock-and-roll like Chuck Berry, Little Richard,…

— Alex Winston

Remember Motown? Not just the driving music that swept the nation and the world, but the vibrant energy of the Motor City…

— Gerald Celente

There are certain things that we take for granted that simply would not have existed without the great migration. Motown, for example,…

— Isabel Wilkerson

I've discovered that Motown and Broadway have a lot in common - a family of wonderfully talented, passionate, hardworking young people, fiercely…

— Berry Gordy

There are many influences in my music, not only blues. R&B, Motown, gospel, old timey, jazz, even classical are all part of…

— Rory Block

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

— David Bennun

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

The only recording studio was in Motown - it was called Tamla/Motown at that time and we used to audition there because…

— Diana Ross

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

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

— Suzanne de Passe

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

— L'Wren Scott

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

— Brenda Holloway