The Temptations Quotes
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I'd like to thank God for giving me the opportunity to sing with the greatest group in the world.
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Marvin Gaye was a friend of mine, and he used to say, 'Man, I wish I could sing like you - if I could have that growl in my voice.' And I said, 'Man, are you kidding me? I want to sing like you. Everybody wants to sing like you.'
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Planning is thinking beforehand how something is to be made or done, and mixing imagination with the product - which in a broad sense makes all of us planners. The only difference is that some people get a license to get paid for thinking and the rest of us just contribute our good thoughts to our fellow man.
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I knew I always wanted to sing.
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What we need now is to deter people from committing these crimes, and I think best way is to have more police.
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We always felt that there was some hanky-panky going on with our money. We were the No. 1 group in the world, but we weren't paid like that.
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Two sides will gang up on the third ... and the Sunnis are seeing this.
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I'm still on an adventure but it's more without a goal then it was in the earlier years. I'm letting myself be led to the places I think I want to go.
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Having worked in the planning field for over 18 years, I think I would be an asset during the upcoming master plan update.
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I used to tell my mother, 'I'm going to have to get a real job one day.' You keep saying this will end one day, but people still call us up and ask us to sing. It's truly amazing.
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Singing rock n' roll - they called it singing for the devil. But we all wanted an opportunity to compete in the music industry, and that was the opportunity.
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Many of the mortgages with high fees fall into categories of semi-commercial such as buy-to-let, or are sub-prime, for people with previous credit problems. Those mainstream products with high fees usually have a great headline interest rate to entice the clients in.
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The fate of the world for the next Islamic year, if bin Laden has his way, will include the nuclear destruction of the United States
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I never knew that I'd still be doing this so many years later.
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My whole life, I've been a Temptation.
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The independent companies tend to be successful in areas that the majors stay away from - then they get nabbed.
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There were a lot of great acts at Motown, and some of them were hard to get along with.
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We're entertainers, not just singers!
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I had some good Alabama raising. You might do something wrong, but you wouldn't do it but once.
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It's nothing that happens overnight. The process is beginning, and we'll be finished by Saturday.
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Sam Cooke was a gospel singer like myself, and when he crossed over and started singing rock n' roll, it kind of gave me the green light to go ahead and do it.
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Every Motown act dressed classy, and we were clean-cut. Whenever you saw a Motown act, they were polished, and they knew how to treat people.
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If you want to see how a hybrid stands up, this is the place to be.
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St. Louis is the best thing that ever happened to me. I needed that peace in my life. And I've always been a semi-country boy.