#motown

I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing. ↗

— Siobhan Fahey

#billie holiday #edith #gets #holiday #i

I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and all of those sounds and souls of Motown filled the house. ↗

— Jay-Z

#collection #extensive #filled #grew #had

Well, I had an after hours club in Vancouver and when any of the Motown acts would call. ↗

— Tommy Chong

#after #any #call #club #had

I feel Motown really exploited me. ↗

— Brenda Holloway

#feel #i #i feel #me #motown

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 start from one end of the band and just go along. The lead singer would change all the time. That's the first time that I actually managed to put it into a record. ↗

— Roy Wood

#along #band #change #did #end

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

— Nickolas Ashford

#egg #golden #landed #motown #mountain

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

— Gary Oldman

#brown #guy #i #interested #james

I went from elementary school to proper training, operatic training, and I went on to the Motown University and learned a lot of things from some wonderful people. ↗

— Martha Reeves

#elementary school #i #learned #lot #motown

My dad liked a lot of Motown, but I didn't listen to it until my teenage years. ↗

— John Legend

#i #liked #listen #lot #motown

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

— Valerie Simpson

#every #mecca #motown #work #writer