Martha Rose Reeves Quotes

• You can’t very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too.

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• There are times in show business when you work so much you think you will pop your cork, and then suddenly you can’t find any work.

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• The world I was born into was one filled with music.

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• The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.

   

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• Most performers spend half their earnings taking care of family members.

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• Lead singers not only do the majority of the work, but their personalities are singled out and taken as the general attitude of the unit.

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• If you stick around long enough, people start referring to you as a survivor. Suddenly I found myself on the receiving end of several prestigious awards.

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• I worshipped Berry Gordy for the creative dreams he had made come true.

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• I will always dance in the street.

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• I went from elementary school to proper training, operatic training, and I went on to the Motown University and learned a lot of things from some wonderful people.

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• I was stranded in Disco. I went to dozens of darkened places with enough flashing lights to drive the average person mad. I felt lost in the pulse of sheer panic.

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• I still marvel at how God turns dreams into reality.

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• I pray for miracles. I have always found prayer to bring quick results.

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• I have always thought music as a way out of the ordinary mundane obligations of life.

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• I don’t worry about being in a hurry any more, because my faith in God will always deliver me on time.

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• Good and bad – this is the story of my life.

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• Going on with life, it only gets more and more intense as time goes by – and the challenges only multiply.

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• God uses singers in a mighty way, and I am grateful.

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• Divas need their furs!

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• Disco music in the ’70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow.

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Martha Rose Reeves (25)

Birth:	18th July, 1941
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress, Author, Politician, Singer

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