Motown Song Quotes

#1. That culture, of looking at catchy music as a negative thing, is weird. It has nothing to do with me, or the music I was into growing up. The Stones and the Beatles only tried to write hits. Every Motown song, every Credence Clearwater song - they were trying to write hits.

Dan Auerbach

#2. My favorite period is when we lived in the land of the three-minute song. The Motown thing - I thought they were genius in knowing that's as much as a listener can take.

Meshell Ndegeocello

#3. Words spoken to drunkards were truly words written in water. They vanished into the endless void in which the drunkard languished.

Anne Rice

#4. We came from the '60s era, when we started and made so many hits. The song value from the '60s was so darn good, you've got The Beatles, The Beach Boys, all of Motown, and plenty of other people, too ... amazing records, amazing songs.

Mike Love

#5. Darwin got it all wrong, you see. Fitness has nothing to do with it. It's survival of the sickest. That's all.

Philip Ridley

#6. You talk to some people who are opposed to same sex marriage, and they'll say, 'If we allow that, what's next? Will people want to marry animals?' ... You have to wonder about people who go straight to that idea
and they think WE'RE weird!

Ellen DeGeneres

#7. I listen to zero pop music, which is really weird from someone who makes pop music.

Miley Cyrus

#8. ...nudity meant just without clothes on, neither good nor bad.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#9. Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#10. We don't deserve our job. Period.

Miles Anthony Smith

#11. Based on the people l've spoken to, I think the impression is: Is America safer from Al Qaeda? Yes. Is America weaker as a nation because we have overspent and over-focused on Al Qaeda? Yes. I think that would be the conclusion that people seem to have come to and that I tend to agree with.

Richard Engel

#12. It is not acceptable that European Union countries are divided into those who give and those who take.

Jean-Claude Juncker

#13. I grew up around music. My father was a professional musician. We used to have a trailer house that we travelled in. I've always loved music. Started out loving to sing to the standards and songs of the early 50s, then that interest shifted to rock and roll, Motown, folk.

Timothy B. Schmit