Once you're a Motown artist, you're always a Motown artist.
Once you're a Motown artist, you're always a Motown artist.
Motown will always be a heavy-duty part of my life because those are my roots.
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.
People still look at Michael Jackson as being a Motown artist.
I went from elementary school to proper training, operatic training, and I went on to the Motown University and learned a lot of things from some wonderful people.
I feel Motown really exploited me.
Once you're a Motown artist, that's your stigmatism, and I was there from the very first day.
I left Motown because of the regime of people who were there.
I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing.
When we did a lot of that Motown stuff there were four of us on the front line. When we started the evening we'd start from one end of the band and just go along. The lead singer would change all the time. That's the first time that I actually managed to put it into a record.
The ballads came from being a Motown girl, and my greatest influence was Tina Turner. I must have seen her 10 times. I got to meet her one time, and she asked me to go on the road with her, but I couldn't go. I had a brand-new baby. It was probably good for me because I still had some growing up to do.
Well, I had an after hours club in Vancouver and when any of the Motown acts would call.
When we were first started we were doing a lot of Motown stuff, but actually playing it more in a rock way. Everybody in the band sang and we did a lot of harmonies.
One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth.
I grew up not far from where Motown was founded, maybe 300 miles from Detroit and I've always liked - I used to like the way they made records. I still do, I just haven't had a chance to hear as much. They used to entertain me.
You could've done a killer 20-minute anthology of Motown that would've been educational to kids who didn't know what Motown was. And the people who lived through Motown would've loved its nostalgic value. ... But music is the hardest way to appeal to a mass audience because it's highly fragmented and you never get anything that everyone likes.
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