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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
Smokey Robinson
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Smokey Robinson
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: February 19
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Detroit
Michigan
William 'Smokey' Robinson
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William Robinson
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Bill Smokey Robinson
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I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record. Originally I was not writing songs for myself. Songwriting is my gift from God.
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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 will bring you a flower from the floor of the sea to wear in your hair.
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When you write a song, a song has longevity
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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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As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.
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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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They don't tell you this in school, Everybody plays the fool.
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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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I still perform because it's a necessity for my innards. And those songs, some of those songs, I have sung, I don't know how many thousands of times. And I promise you, every single solitary night, they're new to me. They are brand-new to me that night.
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I've got sunshine on a cloudy day
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Once you're a Motown artist, you're always a Motown artist
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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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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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We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives.
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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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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.
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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.
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Mistakes, I know I've made a few. But I'm only human, you've made mistakes, too.
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It kills me to see people think that, show business is sex, drugs and rock and roll. And I have what you call a meet and greet. I do it before the show. But when I was doing it after the show especially, there would be people who would come back and said, OK, Smoke, where's the party?
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