Once you're a Motown artist, you're always a Motown artist.
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.
I love Motown, but I've obviously always been more of a Memphis soul fan. If it's Stax or Motown, I go Stax.
I love Motown, that whole era. Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson. I just put on Pandora, and put it on Motown, and it makes me smile; makes me smile so much.
One of my strongest memories is my father playing bongos in the living room in Detroit listening to Motown radio. He was this skinny white bald guy, but he was really moved by blues and Motown and funk.
There are certain things that we take for granted that simply would not have existed without the great migration. Motown, for example, would not have existed - it simply would not, because Berry Gordy, the founder of it, his parents had migrated from...
I often call Daptone the Motown and Stax of today. But in some ways, it's different. At Motown, a lot of the musicians didn't get recognized, music got stolen, and people didn't get paid. Or the label would just throw them a pinch of money for their ...
Motown was the mecca. It was every writer's dream to work there.
Motown's policy was to build one act at a time or their favorites.
I feel Motown really exploited me.
I left Motown because of the regime of people who were there.
My dad liked a lot of Motown, but I didn't listen to it until my teenage years.
People still look at Michael Jackson as being a Motown artist.
We call 'Ain't No Mountain' the golden egg that landed us at Motown.
Motown will always be a heavy-duty part of my life because those are my roots.
I grew up listening to oldies, like Motown. That's from my mom.
Once you're a Motown artist, that's your stigmatism, and I was there from the very first day.
Artist development is something that I've been passionate about from my days at Uptown and Motown Records.
I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown.
One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth.
I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
