Edwin Starr Quotes


"Most artists come in and out of the country, they stay may be 2 weeks - or a month max and then they leave."
- Edwin Starr
(Related: Artists, Country, May)

"I knew that I had a following here in England, and if I came over here maybe I could cultivate it, but I never dreamt it would be as great as it has been."
- Edwin Starr
(Related: England)

"You can only be lucky if you have a place to record."
- Edwin Starr
"Which I would've done 'cause I volunteered for the draft which meant that I only had to do two years. But when the Cubans had missiles in the Canal and Kennedy made the extension, I was one of the ones who had enough time to be extended."
- Edwin Starr
(Related: Time, Draft, canal, Years)

"Well, nine times out of ten when you have 2 or 3 stars in a household you have an unfortunate amount of competition that's not necessarily a healthy competition."
- Edwin Starr
(Related: Competition, Stars)

"The record industry is a world within itself."
- Edwin Starr
(Related: World)

"It's not like it used to be where everybody has a record company to belong to."
- Edwin Starr
(Related: Company)

"If you can make the family life and the music work together that's wonderful. If you can make it work."
- Edwin Starr
(Related: Family, Life, Music, Work)

"I do more work in Britain than I do anywhere else in the world."
- Edwin Starr
(Related: Work, World)

"Unfortunately, I'm not one of those people who take pictures, you know, carry a camera. Because if I did I'd have stack's and stack's and stack's of different act's. I got a lot here - I know what I done."
- Edwin Starr
(Related: People, Act)