American - Musician | February 3, 1943 - February 1, 2018
There were a lot of great acts at Motown, and some of them were hard to get along with.
Dennis Edwards
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A singer knows how he wants the song to go, and a writer visualizes how he wants the song to go.
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When I first got to Motown, Smokey was already a fixture there. To me, he is one of the greatest songwriters and poets, so anything they ask me to do for Smokey is going to get a yes.
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Every Motown act dressed classy, and we were clean-cut. Whenever you saw a Motown act, they were polished, and they knew how to treat people.
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My whole life, I've been a Temptation.
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We have a portion of our show where we ask everybody to get up and do the Temptation Walk. People 8 to 80 know how to do that Temptation Walk.
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Singing rock n' roll - they called it singing for the devil. But we all wanted an opportunity to compete in the music industry, and that was the opportunity.
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We always felt that there was some hanky-panky going on with our money. We were the No. 1 group in the world, but we weren't paid like that.
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I had a mother who prayed for me, and prayer changes everything.
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I'm not an original member, though I'm sort of an original member. I've been on a lot of records and took them to great heights. For them to make me the sixth Temptation is quite an honor.
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St. Louis is the best thing that ever happened to me. I needed that peace in my life. And I've always been a semi-country boy.
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