Quotes by Edwin Starr

• And me, myself personally, in order for there to be any kind of longevity there's gotta be some history.
• Most artists come in and out of the country, they stay may be 2 weeks - or a month max and then they leave.
• 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.
• You can only be lucky if you have a place to record.
• 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.
• 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.
• The record industry is a world within itself.
• It's not like it used to be where everybody has a record company to belong to.
• If you can make the family life and the music work together that's wonderful. If you can make it work.
• I do more work in Britain than I do anywhere else in the world.
• 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.