Civil rights Quote by Brandon Victor Dixon

Nothing surprises me about Berry Gordy.

— Brandon Victor Dixon

Berry Gordy believed in owning the artist for life and controlling everything: the money, the station wagons, everything.

— Wilson Pickett

Berry was a transitional and, to my mind, revolutionary black figure who had to find a place for the rage that the crucible of…

— Elvis Mitchell

I really only knew the name Berry Gordy growing up, but I didn't know what he looked like or anything about him.

— Brandon Victor Dixon

I worshipped Berry Gordy for the creative dreams he had made come true.

— Martha Reeves

Chuck Berry told me if it wasn't for Louis Jordan, he wouldn't have probably ever even got into music. That Louis Jordan changed everything…

— Robbie Robertson

Chuck Berry invented rock 'n' roll. He was one of the best songwriters of the 20th century.

— Ezra Furman

Rock 'n' roll was uniting black kids and white kids, and rock 'n' roll is not being given credit... for being just as important…

— Daryl Davis

I never imagined I'd meet Berry Gordy who told me when he first heard me sing, "You know, your singing's okay, but I like…

— Stevie Wonder

“The birth of the civil rights movement was intimately bound up in the spread of jazz music throughout the United States. It was, for…

— Steven Johnson

There's only one true king of rock 'n' roll. His name is Chuck Berry.

— Stevie Wonder

“Jazz, like left-wing politics and 'the common man', was a cause .”

— Martin T. Williams