American - Musician | January 21, 1942 - April 2, 2003
I knew that I had a following here in England, and if I came over here maybe I could cultivate it, but I never dreamt it would be as great as it has been.
Edwin Starr
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And me, myself personally, in order for there to be any kind of longevity there's gotta be some history.
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I do more work in Britain than I do anywhere else in the world.
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If you can make the family life and the music work together that's wonderful. If you can make it work.
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It's not like it used to be where everybody has a record company to belong to.
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Most artists come in and out of the country, they stay may be 2 weeks - or a month max and then they leave.
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The record industry is a world within itself.
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Unfortunately, I'm not one of those people who take pictures, you know, carry a camera. Because if I did I'd have stack's and stack's and stack's of different act's. I got a lot here - I know what I done.
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Well, nine times out of ten when you have 2 or 3 stars in a household you have an unfortunate amount of competition that's not necessarily a healthy competition.
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You can only be lucky if you have a place to record.
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Which I would've done 'cause I volunteered for the draft which meant that I only had to do two years. But when the Cubans had missiles in the Canal and Kennedy made the extension, I was one of the ones who had enough time to be extended.
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