Quotes About Berry Gordy

#1. Berry Gordy believed in owning the artist for life and controlling everything: the money, the station wagons, everything.

Wilson Pickett

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

Martha Reeves

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. I have this ability to find this hidden talent in people that sometimes even they didn't know they had.

Berry Gordy

#8. 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

#9. If I settle a case out of court, it's because I love the person.

Berry Gordy

#10. Today's business climate is not for me.

Berry Gordy

#11. Look, don't get me wrong. I worship the ground this guy walks on. I'm excited to meet him tonight. I'm dying to meet him tonight. If he wanted to carry me off and make me his love slave, I'd do it, so long as I got advance copies of his books.

Richelle Mead

#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. 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

#14. The World is a product of all the different cultures in the World. True World impact and change of direction will be done by the shifting the paradigm of every world culture.

Matthew Donnelly

#15. Despite a lifetime of social indoctrination, Marcus did not believe in aristocracy of any kind.

Lisa Kleypas

#16. I was in charge, but I made logic the boss.

Berry Gordy Jr.

#17. 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

#18. Your lovin' gives me a thrill
But your lovin' don't pay my bills
I need money - That's what I want.

Berry Gordy

#19. Whenever I came up against presidents of other companies, I was always smarter, because I was from the streets.

Berry Gordy

#20. 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

#21. I'm a songwriter, that's what I love.

Berry Gordy

#22. Money had never been the main thing for me. It's the legacy that was important.

Berry Gordy

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. When I'm directing actors, I often find myself slipping in sports metaphors, like: 'Don't go for the punch line here, just put it up on a T-ball stand so she can hit it out of the park.'

Mark Waters

#26. Every woman is harmed by the cultural expectation that women are decorative possessions, sexual objects to be acted upon; and every man benefits from having been socialized to be the actor.

Anonymous

#27. 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

#28. 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