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Once you're a Motown artist, you're always a Motown artist
Smokey Robinson
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Smokey Robinson
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: February 19
Musician
Record Producer
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Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Television Actor
Detroit
Michigan
William 'Smokey' Robinson
Jr.
Wm. Robinson
William Robinson
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Bill Smokey Robinson
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Motown
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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.
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I don't like you, but I love you.
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If I just gave you a piece of paper with the lyrics written down on it, it would mean something to you. It would tell you a story.
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As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.
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We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives.
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I will bring you a flower from the floor of the sea to wear in your hair.
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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.
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Drugs are in every walk of life - doctors, lawyers, preachers, the guy who works for IBM, teenagers on the street, teenagers in school.
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That's what love is made of, snakes, snails, and puppy dog tails, sugar, spice, and everything nice.
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And I can say this, most of the people who have recorded my songs are songwriters themselves.
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Baby, let's cruise, let's flow, let's glide.
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Originally I was not writing songs for myself
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We're very physical creatures, and we worry about how we look sometimes more than our spiritual selves
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Put your trust in me, let this love be. This is for real, let time stand still.
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I've got sunshine on a cloudy day
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The one thing about God that's so beautiful is He is omnipotent, and He is the Almighty. But He's not a dictator.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Though you treat me badly, I love you madly.
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