Berry Gordy Quotes

Berry Gordy
BERRY GORDY

Camera Once Saw Video Years
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.
BERRY GORDY

Understood
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.
BERRY GORDY

Lapping Lucky Taping
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!
BERRY GORDY

Bars Decade Generations Lifetime
I have this ability to find this hidden talent in people that sometimes even they didn’t know they had.
BERRY GORDY

Aptitude Hidden Sometimes
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.
BERRY GORDY

Blue Cop Reluctant Robber White
The world has to change to fit you. And if you stick to your principles, values and morals long enough, it will.
BERRY GORDY

Long Principles
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.
BERRY GORDY

Weird
Every day I watched how a bare metal frame, rolling down the line would come off the other end, a spanking brand new car.
BERRY GORDY

Doors Kids Line Watched
I didn’t want to be a big record mogul and all that stuff. I just wanted to write songs and make people laugh.
BERRY GORDY

League Record

Created by Minimalist Quotes