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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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Smokey Robinson
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: February 19
Musician
Record Producer
Recording Artist
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Singer-Songwriter
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Television Actor
Detroit
Michigan
William 'Smokey' Robinson
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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 very physical creatures, and we worry about how we look sometimes more than our spiritual selves
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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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That's what love is made of, snakes, snails, and puppy dog tails, sugar, spice, and everything nice.
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Songwriting is my gift from God
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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 don't like you, but I love you.
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When you write a song, a song has longevity
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We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives.
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You know what, life is full of temptations
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Baby, let's cruise, let's flow, let's glide.
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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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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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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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And I can say this, most of the people who have recorded my songs are songwriters themselves.
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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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You are most certainly the inspiration for all of today's rock 'n' roll guitarists. Your music is timeless.
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Once you're a Motown artist, you're always a Motown artist
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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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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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