Sufjan Stevens
Related My father loved music. He loved Motown and R&B, and my mother loved Journey and Fleetwood Mac, s... ANDRA DAY TALIB KWELI I love funk and soul and Motown. TARON EGERTON I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown. L'WREN SCOTT We talked with other labels, but Universal Motown was really interested in my growth as an artist. T... CAMILE VELASCO I was born and raised in the Bronx and my grandfather and my brother Garry were huge Yankees fans. O... PENNY MARSHALL I grew up listening to oldies, like Motown. That's from my mom. RYAN LOCHTE EDDIE MURPHY JASON MRAZ By the time I was in my teens, I was listening to Delta blues and jazz. HOZIER So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston. He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple f... GEORGE J. MITCHELL ELVIS MITCHELL There are certain things that we take for granted that simply would not have existed without the gre... ISABEL WILKERSON Motown was about music for all people - white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was... BERRY GORDY I hope it sells millions, ... But more immediately, my real excitement was the idea that Kubrick was... CHRIS ISAAK YAEL NAIM WALTER SCOTT I guess it kind of stemmed from my father. He was a union guy working for the meat plant down in Kan... DAVID CONE I was listening to the radio and they were playing some music in my cell. I heard a voice through th... ANDREA YATES MIKE MYERS With my music, I don't have to stay in one lane. One day I'm in Motown, and the next day I&#... ESTELLE Definitely just growing up in general influenced me; Detroit happened to be where I was. I feel like... BIG SEAN JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JEFFREY TAMBOR I feel Motown really exploited me. BRENDA HOLLOWAY CHARLIE PUTH Motown's policy was to build one act at a time or their favorites. BRENDA HOLLOWAY VICTOR BORGE I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV... NATALIE COLE PARIS JACKSON My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band - one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as ... JONNY LANG Motown was the mecca. It was every writer's dream to work there. VALERIE SIMPSON With the '60s era and Motown, my grandparents actually introduced us to that when I was younger,... JORDIN SPARKS I made a circular motion with my finger around my temple to indicate I thought this guy was crazy, f... JOHN SWARTZWELDER I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was ... TONY SHALHOUB My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the sch... SAM ABELL My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called... ED BRADLEY I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical ev... SMOKEY ROBINSON JULIANNE MOORE I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death. He'... PARIS-MICHAEL KATHERINE JACKSON Motown will always be a heavy-duty part of my life because those are my roots. SMOKEY ROBINSON CAM NEWTON CAROL LEIFER JOHNNY CASH LINCOLN STEFFENS I was in about in the 8th grade when I started recording R&B, so much of what was on was the Mot... BETTY WRIGHT I come from a political family. My father was a freedom fighter. He was a prominent leader of the lo... PRANAB MUKHERJEE My Mother is Swedish and my Father is Scottish, he played for Charlton in the 1960's and was in ... RICHARD GOUGH When you got to a tournament at night [that Florida was playing in], and you happened to walk by the... BRUCE HEPPLER One of the advantages, one of the special things, about playing in Detroit or Montreal is guys like ... STEVE YZERMAN DAVID SOUL JOHNNY CASH Once you're a Motown artist, you're always a Motown artist. SMOKEY ROBINSON I was really small when jazz broke through in England and I can still remember sneaking off to the l... JEFF BECK A Knight of Motown, GLADYS KNIGHT My father was, like, the token bad white guy in all the old Jackie Chan/Bruce Lee films. CELINA JADE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES My mother was the influence on me - my father was absent. He was a diamond dealer; he was doing wond... MAIRA KALMAN I used to sit there and look over my shoulder at Irv when he was playing and wonder, what did this g... DICK FAZIO In August 1914, my father was called to war and then taken prisoner. He died in captivity in Germany... MAURICE ALLAIS There was a radio station in Chicago, there was a guy named Al Benson, and he pretty much dominated ... HERBIE HANCOCK ALAN ALDA My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in... NORMAN LAMM WARREN BEATTY TONY BENNETT JESSE MCCARTNEY It was difficult for my mother to travel with my father. He was 92 and he'd been sick. He couldn't d... JAMES MAXEY GWYNETH PALTROW One of my initial memories of being taken over by music was watching Paul McCartney on TV play a tri... NATHANIEL RATELIFF I was really small when jazz broke through in England and I can still remember sneaking off to the l... JEFF BECK LIBERTY ROSS I was an original Elvis fan. He was the voice of my generation. I was listening to him on the radio ... RONNIE MILSAP My father played the piano remarkably well, in particular Chopin, Grieg, Beethoven and Scriabin. Dur... ANDREI SAKHAROV One of my earliest memories is my father telling me to behave because I'm about to meet and work... SEAN MAGUIRE GARTH BROOKS MIKE MIGNOLA ESAI MORALES CHARLIE PUTH As I was being born my father claims that he was playing his fiddle/violin to soothe my mother and w... FAIRUZA BALK My dad was 16, and Liberace was 17. They were both finalists. My dad was a humble guy, but he was al... BARBARA WAGNER ANITA BAKER No. It was like father and son ... He is my father. JOHN DOE When I was a kid, I wanted to walk with my dad's limp - my dad was my hero - but that infuriated... DAVID ALAN GRIER B. B. KING I was an original Aberdeen kid, ... My father came here in 1937. I left in 1950, moved to New York, ... DANIEL CHANDLER My earliest memories are of my father explaining to me the American Dream and how he expected me to ... JOE LHOTA My father died when I was 11. He was a vaudeville comedian. He worked in one movie, 'Ladies of t... TERI GARR Dad's a trip, a true one-of-a-kind. He really was doing all those things at once. When I was still l... BUFF BRADLEY EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI He is a real solid player; he has a real solid game. He's the strongest guy on the team and he has a... ALEX HUME MICHAEL DOUGLAS Because of this, my son is left without a father. If he felt his life was in danger, he has no busin... LUZ MARTINEZ My father, Oliver Hynes, was an educator. He was originally just a teacher, a very good one, but the... GARRY HYNES PATTY JENKINS RUDY GIULIANI GEORGE TAKEI In terms of fashion, I think the biggest influence that I had was my father. My pops, he was really ... DANNY BROWN BRUCE CAMPBELL JOHN GREEN My father has been by my side since I was little. He takes care of things, my finances and my family... NEYMAR
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My musical influence is really from my father. He was a DJ in college. My parents met at New York Un... 
Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest ... 
I listened to the radio, so I was influenced by everyone from Michael Jackson to Milli Vanilli. But ... 
One of a handful of films made in Detroit, '8 Mile' doesn't feature the Motown renaissan... 
My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone... 
We met each other in junior high back in the '60s. Motown was in its heyday then. So we were no diff... 
My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration. 
What I really had was stories, the oral traditions of my parents. We moved so much that that was rea... 
I went bald when I was 18. My father cried. He cried about many things. But it allowed me to play ol... 
Marvin Gaye is an inspiration to me. He was one of the first Motown musicians that my mom and dad in... 
One afternoon, when I was four years old, my father came home, and he found me in the living room in... 
I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death. 
My father was a military judge, and my mother was a psychiatric social worker. My brother and sister... 
I grew up trying to be like my idols, and one of the main people in my life was my father. He played... 
My father was a really funny guy. He lived a good long life. And he was the reason I wanted to be fu... 
My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my fathe... 
My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in di... 
My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science ... 
You know what my earliest memories are? Going from one burlesque town to another. My father was in b... 
My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is some... 
Presley is country music, white music. Jazz is black music - it was invented by the blacks in New Or... 
The first record I ever listened to was Elvis Presley, and I remember thinking, 'Man this guy is... 
My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem. 
My mum had this idea I was going to be this long-haired hippie playing guitar and bought me one when... 
I remember in the '80s, Randy Travis was my guy. He's the reason I moved to Nashville, and I... 
My Hellboy is modeled on my father in some ways: a guy who's been in the Korean War, and he'... 
My character Esteban is a guy who really didn't think he was gonna be there at this point in his... 
I listened to a lot of Marvin Gaye and Motown records. 
My father worked on assembly lines in Detroit while I was growing up. Every day, I watched him do wh... 
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I look at my father. He is one of my heroes. He is such an incredible, classy man. He was such a gre... 
My memories of Las Vegas were all with my father when I was, like, a teenager. He was best friends w... 
My father wanted to be a hero. He went to the Air Force Academy, was valedictorian, and then he foun... 
I was a Yankee fan in Brooklyn because my father was a Yankee fan. And my father was required to liv... 
I grew up in the age of radio. That was my main boyhood form of entertainment: lying on the living r... 
My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter. 
And then the line was quite but not dead. I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in... 
You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... 
I think I get a lot of ideas from when I was a kid, listening to Casey Kasem's 'American Top... 
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After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs. 
The imagination is man's power over nature. 
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I'm not normally the kind of person who holds on to grudges, I'm really not. 
Oh. Yes. There. Is. A. Lot of pressure. As a solo singer. Absolutely. 
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Communal well-being is central to human life. 
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Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts. 
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I was more secure being a mother than I was walking on a set. 
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