Actually Quote by Roy Wood

My folks had a lot of Motown records, so that was a kind of an early inspiration. I grew up on the radio really.

— Samuel Ervin Beam

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

— Rick Danko

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

— Simon Cowell

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

— Suzanne de Passe

When we did a lot of that Motown stuff there were four of us on the front line. When we started the evening we'd…

— Roy Wood

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

— Jeff Beck

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

— Dennis Edwards

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

— Hillary Clinton

I'm obsessed with the sound of today, but I was raised on the Motown sound.

— GRiZ

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

— Raphael Saadiq

My introduction to Motown was through The Jackson Five and Michael Jackson. Michael's been my greatest creative inspiration, so that's how I really became…

— Brandon Victor Dixon

Even before coming into the industry, I was a big fan of Motown, the Jackson 5, Gladys Knight, the Temptations, Diana Ross and The Supremes.

— Stephanie Mills