Top 38 Gordy Quotes
#1. Berry Gordy believed in owning the artist for life and controlling everything: the money, the station wagons, everything.
Wilson Pickett
#2. had grown tonight, since Gordy and Crystal both brought friends. Joan was ecstatic at the popularity their little
Virginia Smith
#3. I worshipped Berry Gordy for the creative dreams he had made come true.
Martha Reeves
#4. I never imagined I'd meet Berry Gordy who told me when he first heard me sing, "You know, your singing's okay, but I like your harmonica playing better."
Stevie Wonder
#5. Berry Gordy turned his house into a studio and discovered over 30 acts in the city. And we're famous all over the world.
Martha Reeves
#7. We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgment.
Lillian Gordy Carter
#8. Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.
Lillian Gordy Carter
#9. Don't judge yourself by others' standards ... have your own. And don't get caught up into the trap of changing yourself to fit the world. The world has to change to fit you. And if you stick to your principles, values and morals long enough, it will.
Berry Gordy
#11. Jimmy says he'll never tell a lie. Well, I lie all the time. I have to - to balance the family ticket.
Lillian Gordy Carter
#12. I've discovered that Motown and Broadway have a lot in common - a family of wonderfully talented, passionate, hardworking young people, fiercely competitive but also full of love and appreciation for the work, for each other and for the people in the audience.
Berry Gordy
#13. If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.
Lillian Gordy Carter
#14. I made the decision to keep putting one foot in front of the other, and looking back that was a really stupid decision
Gordy Ainsleigh
#15. Today's business climate is not for me.
Berry Gordy
#16. If I settle a case out of court, it's because I love the person.
Berry Gordy
#17. But once I saw them [Jackson 5 during audition], I rushed out with my video camera to start taping them because I knew that they were something so special, mainly because of the lead singer, nine-year-old Michael Jackson. And it was just so obvious to me that he was a star.
Berry Gordy
#18. I have this ability to find this hidden talent in people that sometimes even they didn't know they had.
Berry Gordy
#19. Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself, 'Lillian, you should have remained a virgin.'
Lillian Gordy Carter
#20. 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
#21. There aren't enough people who care about the future. They are too busy worrying about today and what they can grab now
Berry Gordy
#22. Popular disregard, even disdain, for demonstrable truth is the most dangerous thing that can happen to a democracy.
Gordy Slack
#24. I didn't want to be a big record mogul and all that stuff. I just wanted to write songs and make people laugh.
Berry Gordy
#25. It's like losing a son because I loved Michael and Michael loved me. But you know, as when people grow up and they make their own decisions and they move forward, there's a distance, and I think that Michael in some cases might have gone too far with some of the things he was doing.
Berry Gordy
#26. When you're afraid of failure you're more likely to do it.
Gordy Ainsleigh
#27. All artists have runners, people that tell them what to do, business managers, lawyers, these - if they get the right ones, they're lucky, and if they get the wrong ones, they're unlucky.
Berry Gordy
#28. His [Michael Jackson] behavior was weird, but when you get an artist and a genius, many of the geniuses throughout our whole history were weird. And they did weird things because none of us could understand what was on their mind and why they did what they did.
Berry Gordy
#30. Money had never been the main thing for me. It's the legacy that was important.
Berry Gordy
#31. I know folks all have a tizzy about it, but I like a little bourbon of an evening. It helps me sleep. I don't much care what they say about it.
Lillian Gordy Carter
#33. Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
Lillian Gordy Carter
#35. The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try to guess why you did things, or they hear things from other people.
Berry Gordy
#36. Whenever I came up against presidents of other companies, I was always smarter, because I was from the streets.
Berry Gordy
#37. Your lovin' gives me a thrill
But your lovin' don't pay my bills
I need money - That's what I want.
Berry Gordy
#38. Michael Jackson was not an artist who comes along once in a decade, a generation, or a lifetime. He was an artist who comes along only once, period ... He raised the bar and then BROKE the bar!
Berry Gordy
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