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Originally I was not writing songs for myself
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Smokey Robinson
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: February 19
Musician
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Detroit
Michigan
William 'Smokey' Robinson
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William Robinson
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When you write a song, a song has longevity
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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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With a heart that is truthful, keeping you youthful.
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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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We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives.
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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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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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Baby, let's cruise, let's flow, let's glide.
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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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You are most certainly the inspiration for all of today's rock 'n' roll guitarists. Your music is timeless.
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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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Though you treat me badly, I love you madly.
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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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And I can say this, most of the people who have recorded my songs are songwriters themselves.
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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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Mistakes, I know I've made a few. But I'm only human, you've made mistakes, too.
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Pretty girls come a dime a dozen, try to find one who's gonna give you true loving.
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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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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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Once you're a Motown artist, you're always a Motown artist
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