Martha Reeves Quotes

#1. There were many stars in Motown's firmament - among them, Stevie, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Martha Reeves and Diana Ross - but I happen to have loved the Four Tops most of all.

Jon Landau

#2. I've always loved Dusty Springfield and Martha Reeves.

Solange Knowles

#3. God uses singers in a mighty way, and I am grateful.

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#4. Good and bad - this is the story of my life.

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#5. A large family makes you accept sharing your parents.

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#6. There are times in show business when you work so much you think you will pop your cork, and then suddenly you can't find any work.

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#7. Detroit is full of talent.

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#8. Two of the most crucial principles used by the attentional filter are change and importance

Daniel J. Levitin

#9. How odd that she could take comfort in a demon whilst trying to retain her grip on humanity.

Louise G. White

#10. The world I was born into was one filled with music.

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#11. Lead singers not only do the majority of the work, but their personalities are singled out and taken as the general attitude of the unit.

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#12. The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.

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#13. I worshipped Berry Gordy for the creative dreams he had made come true.

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#14. I will always dance in the street.

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#15. Going on with life, it only gets more and more intense as time goes by - and the challenges only multiply.

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#16. Definitely. I've got posters of girls in bikinis, too. And like, a whole bedside drawer of lube." "I would be disappointed if you didn't." Cassidy laughed.

Robyn Schneider

#17. Television is certainly a writers-led medium. They're the ones who are there, they're the ones that are conferencing or whatever, with directors coming and going.

Brian Baumgartner

#18. I don't worry about being in a hurry any more, because my faith in God will always deliver me on time.

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#19. I pray for miracles. I have always found prayer to bring quick results.

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#20. You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too.

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#21. I went from elementary school to proper training, operatic training, and I went on to the Motown University and learned a lot of things from some wonderful people.

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#22. Berry Gordy turned his house into a studio and discovered over 30 acts in the city. And we're famous all over the world.

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#23. A song has to become as much a part of you as a tailored suit.

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#24. I have always thought music as a way out of the ordinary mundane obligations of life.

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#25. I hate doubt, yet I am certain that doubt is the only way to approach anything worth believing in.

Edward Teller

#26. After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.

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#27. Her problem wasn't she was a dumb blonde, it was she wasn't a blonde and she wasn't dumb.

Joyce Carol Oates

#28. If you stick around long enough, people start referring to you as a survivor. Suddenly I found myself on the receiving end of several prestigious awards.

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#29. These leaders are like the drug lords who ruled America's ghettos in the crack age, men (and some women) interested in just two things: staying in power, and hoovering up enough of what's left of the cash on their blocks to drive around in an Escalade or a 633i for however long they have left.

Matt Taibbi

#30. Divas need their furs!

Martha Reeves

#31. Nothing will ever take away the power and resolve and fearlessness of the great city of Boston. We will get through this. It will take time. But we will get through this.

Joey McIntyre

#32. Oh, Jimmy Mack, when are you comin' back?

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#33. Disco music in the '70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow.

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#34. Most performers spend half their earnings taking care of family members.

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#35. I was stranded in Disco. I went to dozens of darkened places with enough flashing lights to drive the average person mad. I felt lost in the pulse of sheer panic.

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#36. I'm sure nobody wants to just work and earn money and all that stuff. I know it's difficult for people to break out of the syndrome, doing a normal job.

Paul Simonon

#37. Real reason he'd gone was the one most bad decisions have in common: it had seemed like a good idea at the time.

Stephen King