Acts Quote by Martha Reeves

Berry Gordy discovered more superstars than anyone I know. I grew up in that environment, and I know you can develop talent and market…

— Suzanne de Passe

Berry Gordy has always been this hazy legendary figure that I've known about in my childhood that was responsible for everything that I found…

— Brandon Victor Dixon

Following in the footsteps of Berry Gordy, I always admire what he did.

— Jermaine Dupri

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

— Martha Reeves

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 saw Berry in concert a couple of times in the late '70s - and like almost every North American male of a certain…

— Elvis Mitchell

I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder…

— Jay-Z

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

— Wilson Pickett

I was living in New York. Sometimes, our gang of musicians would go to Louis Armstrong's home and play records. It was a lesson,…

— Jimmy Scott

In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in…

— Michael Caine

So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis.…

— Ed Smith

In the neighborhood that I grew up in - in New York on Long Island - there were a lot of musicians. For some…

— John Petrucci