Quotes About Motown

I think my parents are the first influence on me music-wise. My dad was into Motown and soul, and my mom was into British '80s pop, like The Trashcan Sinatras. I grew up on that. It was great. They were the first people to really bring music into my life.

Sometimes you're inspired by an old-school song that you want to chop up and make a sample out of it. I find that with a lot of older Motown music.

Definitely just growing up in general influenced me; Detroit happened to be where I was. I feel like the city definitely has made an impact on my life and made me who I am. Detroit has an unmistakable soul - nobody can duplicate the soul we bring to the game. From Motown to J Dilla to Eminem to anything.

Many of my friends were there at Motown. The studio was only a few blocks from where my dad's home was, where we lived.

I love funk and soul and Motown.

'Head Over Boots' is a shuffle, but it's more of a Motown laid-back shuffle than, say, a Dwight Yoakam shuffle.

I think it's all about the music you listen to along the way. For me, my parents always played Motown music and The Beatles, so I was drawn to the soul.

My mom taught me every dance move I've ever known to the Motown hits.

My introduction to Motown was through The Jackson Five and Michael Jackson. Michael's been my greatest creative inspiration, so that's how I really became familiar with Motown as a whole, and as I got older, I learned far more about the other groups.

I grew up in a jazz household. They made me listen to jazz before I could hear my Motown.

My folks had a lot of Motown records, so that was a kind of an early inspiration. I grew up on the radio really.

'Let's Get It On' is a classic Motown single, endlessly repeatable and always enjoyable.

I want to bring that old soul back, the meaningful lyrics and all of that. And I can't think of a better way to do that than through Motown.

I'm obsessed with the sound of today, but I was raised on the Motown sound.

There were a lot of great acts at Motown, and some of them were hard to get along with.

I think that there is such power with the live performance of it - so much of what 'Motown' is about is the live performance aspect, really. The power of our production is really the music and the performances.

Style and image - it's what Motown is about. They had a charm school led by Maxine Powell. There was literally an artists' development department.

I grew up in one of those households where, growing up in Detroit, you gravitate towards music and cars because we were the capital for a long time. Especially during my childhood. We were the Motown sound. We were the Motor City.

I loved Motown. I loved the musicality and the sound.

The first writers I knew about were Motown's Holland-Dozier-Holland.

One of the only things I've regretted was saying yes to a TV special, 'Motown Mania,' and I said I'll sing you a Diana Ross song. It was just naff.

The same reason why we're doing music is the same reason why Motown did: to make the world a better place and to make people happy. The main message is, just have a good time.

My mum used to listen to Motown. Diana Ross was my first singing teacher, really. I'd just sing along all the time.

One of my idols is my dad. All his work in Motown, and just the way he conducted himself as a human being was always interesting to me, and it seemed like the successful way, and it is a successful way, and I always wanted to do that. He's funny, and all that stuff.