Top 100 Smokey Quotes
#1. I left Motown because of the regime of people who were there.
Smokey Robinson
#2. Somebody said I sound like an old lady, and I was really insulted by that. I'm trying to sound like Skip James and Smokey Robinson and Marvin Gaye.
Tom Waits
#3. Once you're a Motown artist, that's your stigmatism, and I was there from the very first day.
Smokey Robinson
#4. It wasn't until 'Smokey Joe's' came out that I actually got to step out from behind the curtain and meet our 'fans.'
Mike Stoller
#5. People still look at Michael Jackson as being a Motown artist.
Smokey Robinson
#6. Motown will always be a heavy-duty part of my life because those are my roots.
Smokey Robinson
#7. I literally had a very articulate, though highly impaired, homeless man say to me, "Smokey! I love you! What's happening with Jacob?" Here's a guy living on the street, but he finds a way to watch Lost! And I'm looking at him, thinking, Your priorities are completely ass-backward!
Titus Welliver
#8. Barry White, Smokey Robinson and Curtis Mayfield are big influences for me. But I'm also a metal head. I was in a bunch of punk rock bands. The Bee Gees, hip-hop and the Beach Boys are just as much of an influence on me as Smokey.
Mayer Hawthorne
#9. Smokey, this is not 'Nam. This is bowling. There are rules.
John Goodman
#10. There were times I used to go to parties when I was, you know, like 15-, 16-years-old, and I'd always bring my guitar, and all my friends would be like, sing one of the Smokey songs. And everything I sang was his music, and I could sound just like him.
Teena Marie
#11. 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
#12. One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth.
Smokey Robinson
#13. Smokey Wilson was like my Gandhi. If I had run into somebody else in prison, with a different set of values, the world might have never known one of the greatest boxing talents ever to come out of Philadelphia.
Bernard Hopkins
#14. Trains are great dirty smokey thungs", said Will. "You won't like it."
Tessa was unmoved. "I won't know if I like it until I try it, will I?"
"I've never swum naked in the Thames, but I know I wouldn't like it."
"But think how entertaining for sightseers," said Tessa ...
Cassandra Clare
#15. Mistakes, I know I've made a few. But I'm only human, you've made mistakes, too.
Smokey Robinson
#16. I've been speaking at churches for years, as well as juvenile jails, rehabs and hospitals, and I always talk about my faith. That is a declaration of my relationship with God.
Smokey Robinson
#17. [...]They offended Hood,' he stated flatly.
'And How they did that?' Silk enquired.
'They demanded a tithe upon the temple. I demonstrated Hood's tithe.'
'And who are you to judge?' Smokey demanded. The lad's Dark, almost blue-black eyes edged aside to Smokey. 'I am Hood's Sword.
Ian C. Esslemont
#18. We're very physical creatures, and we worry about how we look sometimes more than our spiritual selves.
Smokey Robinson
#19. If your gonna play with rattlesnakes, you better know what rattlesnakes do.
Smokey Yunick
#20. I don't see no more Billie Holidays, no more Marvin Gayes, no more Smokey Robinsons. I don't even see no more Nirvanas.
Wyclef Jean
#21. I listen to a lot of old stuff like Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, and The Temptations.
Brett Davern
#22. On the radio Smokey Robinson complained that a taste of honey is worse than none at all.
Tayari Jones
#23. Smokey Joe (Williams) could throw harder than anyone.
Satchel Paige
#25. I remembered the boy crying the day they buried Smokey in the yard, and I hoped he wouldn't cry over my death. My purpose, my whole life, had been to love him and be with him, to make him happy.
W. Bruce Cameron
#27. Had I not come out with an inspirational CD, you perhaps would have never known that I feel like I feel, that all songs, all the music I've ever done is a gift from God.
Smokey Robinson
#28. Full disclosure here - I had a terrible crush on Smokey Robinson, like every other female on the planet.
Linda Ronstadt
#29. When someone picks up one of my songs and records it, I'm a flattered man, it's a blessing to me.
Smokey Robinson
#30. The tits and the hair and the personality helped build the whole Dolly deal, but it was my music that brought me out of the Smokey Mountains.
Dolly Parton
#31. There's some sad things known to man, but ain't too much sadder than, the tears of a clown when noones around.
Smokey Robinson
#32. And I can say this, most of the people who have recorded my songs are songwriters themselves.
Smokey Robinson
#34. If some of those people who wanted to ban Beethoven's music could hear the music that's being played today, wow, what would they do, man?
Smokey Robinson
#35. Even if I don't release it myself, somebody else might hear it and want to record it. When you write a song, it gives it that potential.
Smokey Robinson
#37. Smokey Robinson writes the heartfelt songs, whereas it was my job to write the songs about weakness and failure in love.
Elvis Costello
#38. Smokey and The Bandit was just a lark. All we did was run up and down those Georgia roads wrecking cars and having the time of our life.
Jerry Reed
#39. The Beatles were huge. And the first thing they said when you interviewed them, 'Oh yeah, we grew up on Motown.'..They were the first white act to admit they grew up listening to black music.
Smokey Robinson
#40. Now if I appear to be carefree it's only to camouflage my sadness. In order to keep my pride I try to cover the hurt with a show of gladness.
Smokey Robinson
#41. I use Revlon waterproof mascara. And then I love a smokey eye when I perform because I think it's important to make your eyes pop when you're on stage.
Ciara
#42. Ron White was not one of the very first original members of the Motown staff, but eventually he was.
Smokey Robinson
#43. If I hear one of my songs by anybody, it's a dream come true every time for me as a songwriter, because I want to write a song, I want to write a song that the world can sing and will always sing.
Smokey Robinson
#44. Just like Pagliacci did, I try to keep my surface hid. Smiling in the crowd I try, but in a lonely room I cry.
Smokey Robinson
#45. Everybody who I ever cared about has told me that they like my music: Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Al Green, The Spinners, Smokey Robinson. Everybody that matters.
Daryl Hall
#46. We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives.
Smokey Robinson
#47. I will bring you a flower from the floor of the sea to wear in your hair.
Smokey Robinson
#48. In fact, I wouldn't really call this a Gospel album, I call it more an inspirational album.
Smokey Robinson
#49. I've never been to rehab, I've never been to psychotherapy or the doctor or anything like that. I went to a church and I was prayed for, and I've always had a great relationship with God.
Smokey Robinson
#50. 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.
Smokey Robinson
#51. There are very few courses around Detroit I haven't played.
Smokey Robinson
#53. 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.
Tika Sumpter
#56. I have the background singers of Ray Charles, the background singers of Smokey Robinson, and the background singers of Barry White and I built a choir around that.
Della Reese
#57. There are two types of racers- cheaters and losers.
Smokey Yunick
#58. Before you ask some girl for her hand now, keep your freedom for as long as you can now. My Mama told me, you better shop around.
Smokey Robinson
#59. Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter; a major influence on my own music from the very start.
Daryl Hall
#60. If you feel like loving me, if you've got the notion, I second that emotion.
Smokey Robinson
#61. As far as cheating goes, they'll never stop it. The only way it can be done successfully, only one person can know about it.
Smokey Yunick
#62. My feet crunched over dry hickory leaves. Wood rangers had stapled up Smokey Bear ("Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires!") signs along the state roads. One cigarette butt flicked out a passing car window and there'd be real hell to pay.
Ed Lynskey
#63. Beethoven was just music, and it didn't matter if he could hear it or not - he could feel it. He could hear it in his mind. He could write it down hearing it in his mind. He was just music. Yeah, he's one of my favorite writers of all times.
Smokey Robinson
#64. I'm blessed, because I enjoy every part of my life. I enjoy writing songs. I've been trying to write songs since I was five years old.
Smokey Robinson
#66. That's what love is made of, snakes, snails, and puppy dog tails, sugar, spice, and everything nice.
Smokey Robinson
#67. As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.
Smokey Robinson
#68. Hickory dickory dock, I just want to be your clock. Just set me for a lifetime, and I'll wake you up every morning.
Smokey Robinson
#69. I used the stormy gray and heather brown shadows from the Lilac Rose Eye Palette to create a soft smokey eye for Veronica Beard's Spring 2013 show. The look was dramatic but delicate.
Bobbi Brown
#70. I had been stockpiling Gospel songs for other artists, and had planned to submit them to Gospel artists.
Smokey Robinson
#71. You are most certainly the inspiration for all of today's rock 'n' roll guitarists. Your music is timeless.
Smokey Robinson
#72. So I wanted to sing inspirational music, and that's exactly how I approached it - only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God.
Smokey Robinson
#73. Pretty girls come a dime a dozen, try to find one who's gonna give you true loving.
Smokey Robinson
#74. Put your trust in me, let this love be. This is for real, let time stand still.
Smokey Robinson
#75. We're going to have ourselves one hell of a Ruckus, said Smokey with a grin that went quite beyond the boundaries of mischief and right into the realm of delinquency.
Joshua Donellan
#76. I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record.
Smokey Robinson
#77. I love hearing my music, I love hearing it by other people. I hope it will always be played.
Smokey Robinson
#78. You know what, I'm probably one of the most blessed people there's ever been, and I thank God for it.
Smokey Robinson
#79. Once you're a Motown artist, you're always a Motown artist.
Smokey Robinson
#81. The only thing you're taking out of here is your spirit and your soul, so we need to be conscious to try and develop that part of ourselves, because we're all spiritual creatures.
Smokey Robinson
#82. When we were on acid, we would go into the woods, because there was less chance that you would run into an authority figure. But we ran into a bear. My friend Duane was there, raising his right hand, swearing to help prevent forest fires. He told me, "Mitchell, Smokey is way more intense in person!"
Mitch Hedberg
#83. Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smokey Joe Wood.
Walter Johnson
#84. You might be a redneck if you have refused to watch the Academy Awards since Smokey and the Bandit was snubbed for best picture.
Jeff Foxworthy
#85. I love producing, writing. I rarely write with other writers unless I have a real great respect for them. Like Burt Bacharach, or Carole Sager, or Stevie Wonder. Somebody like Smokey - like that. Otherwise, I choose to write alone.
Aretha Franklin
#87. I feel scared and unsure of what to do next, but decide that no matter what happens, I'm glad I ran away. A pony like Smokey is worth fighting for - even if we did get him for free. A pony like Smokey is no small thing.
Natale Ghent
#88. Drugs are in every walk of life - doctors, lawyers, preachers, the guy who works for IBM, teenagers on the street, teenagers in school.
Smokey Robinson
#89. They don't tell you this in school, Everybody plays the fool.
Smokey Robinson
#90. This was one of those mid-thirties moments when you take a look at the stale, half-chewed bagel your life has become and kiss jealousy on its smokey mouth.
Steve Almond
#91. I think the most-played record in our house was the 'Big Chill' Soundtrack - so Smokey Robinson, Aretha Franklin, the Temptations, Otis Redding. I think that's where I got my love for a good hook, a good soul hook - really smooth and warm and from the heart.
Chet Faker
#92. As a kid, this is what I wanted my life to be. Not in my wildest dreams did I ever dare to dream that it would be this.
Smokey Robinson
#93. There is nothing that means more to a woman than a love she can count on.
Smokey Robinson
#94. She smiles and snuggles into me as we wait for our table. I inhale her scent. Vanilla and something else. Something different. Smokey almost. Sexy. It drives me crazy with need and I have to move away while I can.
Christine Fonseca
#95. but man, if you're not honest with yourself you're a lost soul swimming with the 15 foot crocodiles.
Smokey Yunick
#96. There's so many wonderful gospel people out there, and I don't necessarily want to compete with those people.
Smokey Robinson
#97. And damn well no 5-0 with his Smokey the Bear looking sidekick, will ever tell me differently.
J.J. McAvoy
#98. That's because we did not set out to make black music. We set out to make quality music that everyone could enjoy and listen to.
Smokey Robinson
#100. People say I'm the life of the party Because I tell a joke or two Although I might be laughing loud and hearty Deep inside I'm blue So take a good look at my face You'll see my smile looks out of place If you look closer, it's easy to trace The tracks of my tears..
Smokey Robinson
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