Latest Smokey Robinson Quotes from Interviews

Quotes about:

• I know what God did for me. I know that He is my way out and my way in. He's my way out of all this havoc and my way into paradise. He suffered for me and for everybody listening. God loves us so much. He tried a lot of things to get our attention. He tried a lot of things to get us back to Him. So He said, "I'll tell you what. I'm going to make it real simple for you. I'm going to send my Son. He's going to take on all your iniquities and all your sins. He's gonna die in your place so you can have everlasting life. All you've got to do is accept that.

  Smokey Robinson

  Real, Son, Simple

• The one thing about God that's so beautiful is He is omnipotent, and He is the Almighty. But He's not a dictator.

  Smokey Robinson

  Beautiful, Dictator

• I remember my first check that I got for a thousand dollars, and where I grew up, I never thought I'd have a thousand dollars at one time.

  Smokey Robinson

  Remember

• 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?

  Smokey Robinson

  Party, Thinking, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

• The music business has made a 360. It's a whole 'nother game. It's not nearly what it was. And I fear for it, because, you know, with the advent of the computer and online and downloading and all these things, they have destroyed - that stuff has destroyed the record business, not the music business, but the record business. The music business is well, and it's alive and thriving. Now, I hope something happens to turn it back around to the point whereas it's - you're earning a living from writing your songs, from your work, you know, because it's not like that anymore.

  Smokey Robinson

  Song, Writing, Computer

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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.

  Smokey Robinson

  Song, Night, Promise

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Without you hearing a melody or music or anything like that, it would say something to you. So, that's what a song is to me. Now, you have a lot of songs that come out, and the beat carries them over there, because of the beat, and because of some other factors and so on and so forth. But I want mine to be a song, if you read it, it's going to mean something to you.

  Smokey Robinson

  Song, Mean, Melody

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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.

  Smokey Robinson

  Mean

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I love hearing my music, I love hearing it by other people. I hope it will always be played.

  Smokey Robinson

  People, Hearing

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I've never been to rehab, I've never been to psychotherapy or the doctor or anything like that. I went to a church and I was prayed for, and I've always had a great relationship with God.

  Smokey Robinson

  Doctors, Church, Rehab

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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.

  Smokey Robinson

  Writing, Mind, Matter

  Source: www.pbs.org

• If I hear one of my songs by anybody, it's a dream come true every time for me as a songwriter, because I want to write a song, I want to write a song that the world can sing and will always sing.

  Smokey Robinson

  Dream, Song, Writing

  Source: www.pbs.org

• If some of those people who wanted to ban Beethoven's music could hear the music that's being played today, wow, what would they do, man?

  Smokey Robinson

  Men, People, Wow

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I'm blessed, because I enjoy every part of my life. I enjoy writing songs. I've been trying to write songs since I was five years old.

  Smokey Robinson

  Song, Blessed, Writing

  Source: www.pbs.org

• My philosophy on writing a song for myself is that I always, always, always want to write a song. I always want to write a song. I realize that as a record producer or a singer or whatever I might not, if I recorded on myself or someone else, the first time out I might not give it the right treatment, so that the world or many people will accept it and it'll be a public hit, or anything like that.

  Smokey Robinson

  Song, Philosophy, Writing

  Source: www.pbs.org