Berry Gordy Quotes

Motown was about music for all people - white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone.

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• While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.

  

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• Everybody thinks they deserve something.

  

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• Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.

  

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• There are a million great books out there if you just go to Google. There's a lot to pull apart. A lot of crazy, unbelievable stuff that's all completely true. I get into little obsessions, and I read everything I can find on one thing, and then I move onto another.

  

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• Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

  

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• I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.

  

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• Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think?

  

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• If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.

  

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• The evolvement of proteolysis as a centrally important regulatory mechanism is a remarkable example for the development of a novel biological concept and the accompanying battles to change paradigms.

  

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• If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.

  

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• Seeing the bigger picture opens your eyes to what is the truth.

  

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• Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.

  

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• When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.

  

  Daniel Clowes
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• Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.

  

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• The first thing I do when I get to any town is find a gym and a breakfast place, because I love breakfast.

  

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• I think, no matter what, when you're writing songs, most people write about the extremes of their experiences.

  

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• It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.

  

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• My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will draw as much as I can for as many people as I can for as long as I can.

  

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• I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm competing with is me.

  

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• I am not an expert on Chinese science fiction. I probably know more than anyone else in the West, but that doesn't actually mean I am an expert.

  

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• I've been a single parent for a long time. It reminds me of being a waitress. As you walk back to the kitchen, requests come at you from all sides. You're doing the job of two - you have to be highly organised.

  

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• You know what we can be like: see a guy and think he's cute one minute, the next minute our brains have us married with kids, the following minute we see him having an extramarital affair. By the time someone says, 'I'd like you to meet Cecil,' we shout, 'You're late again with the child support!'

  

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• Motown was about music for all people - white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone.

  

  Berry Gordy
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