Atlantic Quote by Wilson Pickett Download Open image “Motown was pop, Atlantic was R&B.” — Wilson Pickett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Atlantic Motown Pop
Back in the day, Motown was on the pulse of young America. It wasn't about just dope contemporary. It was pop, it was R&B,… — Ne-Yo Copy Share Image
Motown was about music for all people – white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our… — Berry Gordy Copy Share Image
At home, it was always Motown and that late '80s/early '90s R&B like Jodeci pumping through the speakers. — Da'Vine Joy Randolph Copy Share Image
There were a lot of great acts at Motown, and some of them were hard to get along with. — Dennis Edwards Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the history of… — Smokey Robinson Copy Share Image
When we were first started we were doing a lot of Motown stuff, but actually playing it more in a rock way. Everybody in… — Roy Wood Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I made two or three albums with money from my own pocket, but I couldn't get them released or played on the radio. I… — Wilson Pickett Copy Share Image
If I'm not getting played on the radio and I'm not making any money, I have nothing to lose by telling the truth. — Wilson Pickett Copy Share Image
We used to have a lot of fun. We got cheated out of a lot of money, but we seemed to enjoy ourselves anyway. — Wilson Pickett Copy Share Image
One of the secretaries at Atlantic Records caught me pinching one of the other secretaries on the butt one morning. She said, 'My, you… — Wilson Pickett Copy Share Image
Berry Gordy believed in owning the artist for life and controlling everything: the money, the station wagons, everything. — Wilson Pickett Copy Share Image
I took five hit records to Memphis, and '634-5789' was stolen from me totally. Those songs are worth millions. I've never understood how someone… — Wilson Pickett Copy Share Image
Put your hands on your hip, let your back bone slip. Do the Watusi, like my little Lucy. — Wilson Pickett Copy Share Image
Anytime you've got artists singing songs, doing grooves that they don't want to do, it's terrible. — Wilson Pickett Copy Share Image
The baddest woman in my book... my mother. I get scared of her now. She used to hit me with anything, skillets, stove wood. — Wilson Pickett Copy Share Image
I'd start to sing, and the record would start skipping. You'd be skipping along with it. Those were the days, my friend. We'd look… — Wilson Pickett Copy Share Image
Biarritz is one of the most popular holiday destinations in France and it tops the list for coastal resorts along the French Atlantic. — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
There are people who could watch a hurricane like Sandy blow out of the Atlantic every other day and blame it on anything but… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
I loved going to the Knicks because we won the Atlantic Division championship. We went from winning 21 games or 19 games to winning… — Rick Pitino Copy Share Image
Grounding airplanes to cover your butt would never have let Orville or Wilbur change the world. We would still be spending weeks to cross… — Gordon Bethune Copy Share Image
The Atlantic conference in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland is a dramatic moment in World War II history because for the first time, Roosevelt… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Even as global warming increases the frequency of El Nino and the Atlantic event, their effects are being amplified by the annual loss of… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
I didn't graduate from college, so I might as well be on Atlantic Records, right? — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
There's milk-and-cookies Grandma, and there's Colt 45 and Atlantic City Grandma. She was the latter. — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
I was introduced to the world of modern food production in the mid-1990s, while researching an article about California's strawberry industry for the 'Atlantic… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
You know, Equal Interest played at the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival Awards and not one musician from that category was even thought of. Even… — Joseph Jarman Copy Share Image
I was actually born in New York City, but my family moved to Atlantic City when I was five, this being my dad's home… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
