Berry Gordy Quotes

• Don’t judge yourself by others’ standards…have your own. And don’t get caught up into the trap of changing yourself to fit the world. The world has to change to fit you. And if you stick to your principles, values and morals long enough, it will.

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  Change, Long, Judging

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• Tengo la habilidad de encontrar ese talento oculto en la gente que a veces ni siquiera ellos sabían que tenían.

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  People, African American, Aptitude

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• Motown was about music for all people – white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone.

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  Blue, White, People

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• Every day I watched how a bare metal frame, rolling down the line would come off the other end, a spanking brand new car. What a great idea! Maybe, I could do the same thing with my music. Create a place where a kid off the street could walk in one door, an unknown, go through a process, and come out another door, a star.

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  Stars, Kids, Doors

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• Money had never been the main thing for me. It's the legacy that was important.

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  Important, Legacy, Music Business

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• There aren’t enough people who care about the future. They are too busy worrying about today and what they can grab now

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  People, Worry, Who Cares

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• Michael Jackson was not an artist who comes along once in a decade, a generation, or a lifetime. He was an artist who comes along only once, period… He raised the bar and then BROKE the bar!

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  Artist, Generations, Bars

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• I didn't want to be a big record mogul and all that stuff. I just wanted to write songs and make people laugh.

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  Canción, Escritura, Gente

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• I've discovered that Motown and Broadway have a lot in common - a family of wonderfully talented, passionate, hardworking young people, fiercely competitive but also full of love and appreciation for the work, for each other and for the people in the audience.

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  Appreciation, People, Passionate

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• I'm a songwriter, that's what I love.

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  Compositores

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• The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try to guess why you did things, or they hear things from other people.

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  Libro, Escritura, Personas

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• It's like losing a son because I loved Michael and Michael loved me. But you know, as when people grow up and they make their own decisions and they move forward, there's a distance, and I think that Michael in some cases might have gone too far with some of the things he was doing.

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  Growing Up, Distance, Moving

  "Motown's Gordy On Michael Jackson". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. June 27, 2009.

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• His [Michael Jackson] behavior was weird, but when you get an artist and a genius, many of the geniuses throughout our whole history were weird. And they did weird things because none of us could understand what was on their mind and why they did what they did.

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  Artist, Mind, Genius

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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• All artists have runners, people that tell them what to do, business managers, lawyers, these - if they get the right ones, they're lucky, and if they get the wrong ones, they're unlucky.

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  Artist, People, Lucky

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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• Pero en cuanto los vi [a los Jackson 5 durante la audición], salí corriendo con mi cámara de vídeo para empezar a grabarlos porque sabía que eran algo muy especial, sobre todo por el cantante principal, Michael Jackson, de nueve años. Para mí era obvio que era una estrella.

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  Stars, Years, Special

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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• Today's business climate is not for me.

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  Climate, Today

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