Smokey Robinson Quotes

I've been speaking at churches for years, as well as juvenile jails, rehabs and hospitals, and I always talk about my faith. That is a declaration of my relationship with God.

- Smokey Robinson

Drugs are in every walk of life - doctors, lawyers, preachers, the guy who works for IBM, teenagers on the street, teenagers in school.

- Smokey Robinson

When you write a song, a song has longevity.

- Smokey Robinson

I played golf all over Detroit.

- Smokey Robinson

There are very few courses around Detroit I haven't played.

- Smokey Robinson

When someone picks up one of my songs and records it, I'm a flattered man, it's a blessing to me.

- Smokey Robinson

People still look at Michael Jackson as being a Motown artist.

- Smokey Robinson

So I wanted to sing inspirational music, and that's exactly how I approached it - only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God.

- Smokey Robinson

I had been stockpiling Gospel songs for other artists, and had planned to submit them to Gospel artists.

- Smokey Robinson

We're very physical creatures, and we worry about how we look sometimes more than our spiritual selves.

- Smokey Robinson

We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives.

- Smokey Robinson

The only thing you're taking out of here is your spirit and your soul, so we need to be conscious to try and develop that part of ourselves, because we're all spiritual creatures.

- Smokey Robinson

As a kid, this is what I wanted my life to be. Not in my wildest dreams did I ever dare to dream that it would be this.

- Smokey Robinson

And I can say this, most of the people who have recorded my songs are songwriters themselves.

- Smokey Robinson

In fact, I wouldn't really call this a Gospel album, I call it more an inspirational album.

- Smokey Robinson

There's so many wonderful gospel people out there, and I don't necessarily want to compete with those people.

- Smokey Robinson

As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.

- Smokey Robinson

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.

- Smokey Robinson

One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth.

- Smokey Robinson

Once you're a Motown artist, you're always a Motown artist.

- Smokey Robinson

Once you're a Motown artist, that's your stigmatism, and I was there from the very first day.

- Smokey Robinson

Motown will always be a heavy-duty part of my life because those are my roots.

- Smokey Robinson

I left Motown because of the regime of people who were there.

- Smokey Robinson

I really haven't strayed too far, musically, from my roots.

- Smokey Robinson

Had I not come out with an inspirational CD, you perhaps would have never known that I feel like I feel, that all songs, all the music I've ever done is a gift from God.

- Smokey Robinson

Originally I was not writing songs for myself.

- Smokey Robinson

My mother was a churchgoing lady, so I always heard about God at home.

- Smokey Robinson

You know what, I'm probably one of the most blessed people there's ever been, and I thank God for it.

- Smokey Robinson

You know what, life is full of temptations.

- Smokey Robinson

Songwriting is my gift from God.

- Smokey Robinson

Even if I don't release it myself, somebody else might hear it and want to record it. When you write a song, it gives it that potential.

- Smokey Robinson

That's because we did not set out to make black music. We set out to make quality music that everyone could enjoy and listen to.

- Smokey Robinson