Smokey Robinson Quotes

I've got sunshine on a cloudy day

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

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.

If you feel like loving me, if you've got the notion, I second that emotion.

Songwriting is my gift from God

Mistakes, I know I've made a few. But I'm only human, you've made mistakes, too.

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

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

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.

With a heart that is truthful, keeping you youthful.

I will bring you a flower from the floor of the sea to wear in your hair.

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.

They don't tell you this in school, Everybody plays the fool.

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.

Pretty girls come a dime a dozen, try to find one who's gonna give you true loving.

The Beatles were huge. And the first thing they said when you interviewed them, 'Oh yeah, we grew up on Motown.'..They were the first white act to admit they grew up listening to black music.

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

A taste of honey is worse than none at all.

She may be cute, but she's just a substitute.

My uncle Claude was my favorite uncle he was also my godfather. He and I were really, really close. He used to take me to see cowboy movies all the time when I was a little boy because I loved cowboy movies. He got a cowboy name for me, which was Smokey Joe. So from the time I was three years old if people asked me what my name was I didn't tell them my name was William, I told them my name was Smokey Joe.

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

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.

You know what, life is full of temptations

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

Put your trust in me, let this love be. This is for real, let time stand still.