Berry Gordy Quotes

In 'The Interestings' I wanted to write about what happens to talent over time. In some people talent blooms, in others it falls away.

I created MMG years ago. My desire was to create a space where the most talented artists in the world could be nurtured and supported. With that came a commitment. I vowed to support these artists through the good and the bad.

The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul. No matter our talents, education, backgrounds, or abilities, we each have an inherent wish to create something that did not exist before. Creation brings satisfaction and fulfillment. We develop ourselves and others when we take organized matter into our hands and mold it into something of beauty.

A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.

I've always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That's been part of the journey.

I realized that I wanted to get better in every way. As a person, as a friend, as a songwriter, as a musician, as an artist, record producer, you name it.

I think everyone has the potential to be creative, but they have to find the avenue or avenues that work for them.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

For me, making music is a continuous learning experience, and I think that it feeds itself.

It's a great challenge and a wonderful journey how to figure out how to be an artist and to carve my way.

The ultimate point of a piece for me is that it drives the next one. Does it open new doors? That's the success of a piece.

All the time I'm changing as an artist and as a person.

Eric McCormack is directing talent waiting to happen.

The whole process of this record was an education for me as a musician.

History's most treasured musicians were believed in and cultivated to reach their potential. Today, it would be difficult for those musicians to get deals. We have the insight and the tools to identify and bring to fruition the dormant talent that our artists possess.

In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people.

I think it's a great document of John Stevens' originality. At that time he was already much more fully formed in his conception than I was. I was sort of struggling to keep up, and sometimes it's pretty obvious.

If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves.

People say I am stuck in childhood, but it's not that. I remember seeing a Matisse retrospective, and you could see he started out one way, and then he tried something different, and then he seemed to spend his whole life trying to get back to the first thing.

It's hard to come across someone who can look past an artist who is larger and just see them for the talent they are and have them be willing to invest what's necessary to make them a star.

Writing 'Monitor Mix' was a very edifying and inspiring few years.

My favorite artists are the ones that I can take their eight or ten albums, and I can see the arc of their life.

I'm still finding myself as an artist. I'm still experimenting a little bit.

I've always wanted to push someone who's not really known but has mad talent. I don't know if I'm going to do a publishing company or a record label, but I'm interested in pushing artists in any sense.

I'm now 23 and feel like it's been a full 'crash course' in the music industry - I've only just found my sound.