Smokey Robinson Quotes
"You know what, I'm probably one of the most blessed people there's ever been, and I thank God for it."
- Smokey Robinson
(Related: God, People)
"One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth."
- Smokey Robinson
(Related: Family, Myth)
"Originally I was not writing songs for myself."
- Smokey Robinson
(Related: Songs, Writing)
"People still look at Michael Jackson as being a Motown artist."
- Smokey Robinson
(Related: People, Artist, Being)
"So I wanted to sing inspirational music, and that's exactly how I approached it - only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God."
- Smokey Robinson
(Related: Inspirational, Music, God, Words)
"Songwriting is my gift from God."
- Smokey Robinson
(Related: God)
"That's because we did not set out to make black music. We set out to make quality music that everyone could enjoy and listen to."
- Smokey Robinson
(Related: Music, Quality)
"There are very few courses around Detroit I haven't played."
- Smokey Robinson
"There's so many wonderful gospel people out there, and I don't necessarily want to compete with those people."
- Smokey Robinson
(Related: People, Want)
"We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives."
- Smokey Robinson
(Related: Temptation, Victims)
"We're very physical creatures, and we worry about how we look sometimes more than our spiritual selves."
- Smokey Robinson
(Related: Spiritual, Worry)
"Once you're a Motown artist, you're always a Motown artist."
- Smokey Robinson
(Related: Artist)
"When you write a song, a song has longevity."
- Smokey Robinson
(Related: Longevity, Song)
"In fact, I wouldn't really call this a Gospel album, I call it more an inspirational album."
- Smokey Robinson
(Related: Inspirational, Fact)
"You know what, life is full of temptations."
- Smokey Robinson
(Related: Life, Temptations)
"When someone picks up one of my songs and records it, I'm a flattered man, it's a blessing to me."
- Smokey Robinson
(Related: Man, Songs)
"I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record."
- Smokey Robinson
(Related: Song, Want)
"And I can say this, most of the people who have recorded my songs are songwriters themselves."
- Smokey Robinson
(Related: People, Songs)
"As a kid, this is what I wanted my life to be. Not in my wildest dreams did I ever dare to dream that it would be this."
- Smokey Robinson
(Related: Dreams, Life)
"As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money."
- Smokey Robinson
(Related: Money)
"Drugs are in every walk of life - doctors, lawyers, preachers, the guy who works for IBM, teenagers on the street, teenagers in school."
- Smokey Robinson
(Related: Life, Doctors, Drugs, Lawyers, School, Teenagers)
"My mother was a churchgoing lady, so I always heard about God at home."
- Smokey Robinson
(Related: Home, Mother, God, Lady)
"Had I not come out with an inspirational CD, you perhaps would have never known that I feel like I feel, that all songs, all the music I've ever done is a gift from God."
- Smokey Robinson
(Related: Inspirational, Music, God, Songs)
"Once you're a Motown artist, that's your stigmatism, and I was there from the very first day."
- Smokey Robinson
(Related: Artist, Day, First)
"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 music."
- Smokey Robinson
(Related: History, Music, Being)
"I had been stockpiling Gospel songs for other artists, and had planned to submit them to Gospel artists."
- Smokey Robinson
(Related: Artists, Songs)
"I left Motown because of the regime of people who were there."
- Smokey Robinson
(Related: People)
"I played golf all over Detroit."
- Smokey Robinson
(Related: Golf)
"I really haven't strayed too far, musically, from my roots."
- Smokey Robinson
"I've been speaking at churches for years, as well as juvenile jails, rehabs and hospitals, and I always talk about my faith. That is a declaration of my relationship with God."
- Smokey Robinson
(Related: God, Faith, Churches, Hospitals, Talk, Years)
"Motown will always be a heavy-duty part of my life because those are my roots."
- Smokey Robinson
(Related: Life, Will)
"Even if I don't release it myself, somebody else might hear it and want to record it. When you write a song, it gives it that potential."
- Smokey Robinson
(Related: Potential, Song, Want)