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nomis
09-07-2010, 07:11 PM
Thought this would be a fun topic heres some of my favourite quotes,I think you can guess who said what...

"But Mrs Ballard yes I want Flo in the group but she dosent want to be with us..."

"...Then I wash my hands of the group.."

"Suzanne..WHERE is my honey and lemon ? "

"I will only appear if I can do Billie Jean..."

"When The Supremes hit big...Berry was gone.."

"Cindy wasnt an official Supreme..we were waiting for Blondie to come back.."

'Dont be ridiculous thats your problem..you figure it out.."

"In my day we saved vegetables for bitches like that.."

"Remember those rent parties..."

"Well Im telling Berry..."

"Ok we'll do the symphony melody instead..."

smark21
09-07-2010, 07:42 PM
"Mary we are not! How could you say that?!"

nomis
09-07-2010, 07:49 PM
"You can take that piece of paper..and shove it up your ASS ! "

nomis
09-07-2010, 07:59 PM
"If you leave now..I will never make another film with you.."

midnightman
09-07-2010, 08:46 PM
"If you don't release this record, BG, I ain't gonna record sh*t for you again."

Glenpwood
09-07-2010, 08:56 PM
"You could've been in the Supremes, Claudette..."

nomis
09-07-2010, 09:02 PM
'If the other girls dont show..just record Diane its easier and cheaper.."

nomis
09-07-2010, 09:18 PM
"I would have given you girls a holiday...but Florence thinks too much..."

daddyacey
09-08-2010, 02:47 AM
"I'm 21.................. and I want my money"

Starguard4
09-08-2010, 03:37 AM
Damon Harris, YOU'RE FIRED!

nomis
09-08-2010, 03:53 AM
"Ladies and gentlemen...Michael Jackson and the Jackson Five..!"

nomis
09-08-2010, 05:20 AM
"You Know Diane is right..you are too fat.."

Starguard4
09-08-2010, 05:28 AM
"You know Mary is right, Jeanna... you're here under duress"

nomis
09-08-2010, 05:39 AM
"I just bet Diane loves that Marquee..dont you walk away from me.."

westgrandboulevard
09-08-2010, 05:59 AM
"Your demands are becoming excessive. And now you want to divorce Syreeta. She's GORGEOUS! I just don't know why you can't see it..."

nomis
09-08-2010, 06:05 AM
"It hurt me to make that decision.Alot of my friends are like 'Honey,three million dollars -I'd take it'Well,they're not Supremes."

westgrandboulevard
09-08-2010, 06:12 AM
"I saw you both in the monitor. I was distraught. You were so badly lit that I had to do something very quickly, so I put my hands up to shield you...."

Starguard4
09-08-2010, 06:14 AM
"...because, Suzanne, I am a bigger STAR than YOU"

nomis
09-08-2010, 06:30 AM
"..Full of promise and determination..and unity..and humanity..my loved ones today is the birthplace of forever.."

westgrandboulevard
09-08-2010, 06:32 AM
"..and we need to make a good impression, so make sure you put an end to Gladys and the girls romancing those lowdown Contours. No.....wait a minute! I'll book the preacher. You be outside the chapel with a crate of records..."

nomis
09-08-2010, 06:40 AM
"..Its not about the people who leave Motown its about the people who come back..and tonight everybody came back.."

nomis
09-08-2010, 06:48 AM
"I'll never forget,one time,while we were performing in Boston,Diane's mike went out,so without any warning at all she walked over and snatched Mary's microphone out of her hand.Mary snatched it back.Here they are snatching the microphone back and forth,and Im still standing there still singing and looking at them.."

westgrandboulevard
09-08-2010, 07:07 AM
"...so, while you do have great poise and charm, telling Mrs Powell to go and stuff her Thanksgiving turkey is not our idea of goodwill..."

nomis
09-08-2010, 07:09 AM
"Ok driver..stop the bus..Ross and Horton are getting off..we need to settle this..."

nomis
09-08-2010, 07:11 AM
"On hullabaloo they gave me a stupid cue card to read..how dare they!..I could be mistress of ceremonies but they dont ask me..I see all these phonies walking around who have never had a number one record.."

nomis
09-08-2010, 07:13 AM
"Were playing the Copa and the dresses are not here.... someone better do something or Im gonna get mad.."

Glenpwood
09-08-2010, 12:25 PM
"Mama where are you?".... "She's trying to make it the hard way...."

bradsupremes
09-08-2010, 12:29 PM
"Diana Ross was so thin she was wearing pads on her hips!"

westgrandboulevard
09-08-2010, 01:00 PM
"You can't run my record company!".........."And neither can you!!"

bradsupremes
09-08-2010, 01:41 PM
"I'm singing!!"
"Well, you're also making faces."

nomis
09-08-2010, 06:16 PM
"Now Michael..you know you shouldnt be in my makeup.."
"But its magic Diane...."

nomis
09-08-2010, 06:32 PM
"Ok stop everything..theres too many show songs were gonna cut 'People'..."

RossHolloway
09-08-2010, 06:41 PM
Now that we have so many quotes, can we please put them in context and add names?

nomis
09-08-2010, 06:55 PM
"Flo did not fall..." [[Delcina Wilson)

smark21
09-08-2010, 07:41 PM
Stomp on that fur, Mary!

nomis
09-08-2010, 07:42 PM
"Why..Im not trying to smuggle a dog on this plane..why this is just a hatbox..."
"Well then..your hat box just barked!" [[Diana and check in assistant circa 1965)

nomis
09-08-2010, 07:54 PM
"Miss Ross will enter and stand here..then Miss Ross will walk over here..you two - Mary and Cindy, just stand here..."
[[Taping GIT special '69)

nomis
09-08-2010, 08:02 PM
"You know..there were times when Diane would pick up the phone and say "Im calling Berry"..that line,right there,would cause a whole heap of problems.." [[Mary interviewed on Entertainment Tonight Nov '86)

nomis
09-08-2010, 08:13 PM
"Little old ladies have gone blind making those dresses..." [[Diana on Tonight Show '67)

nomis
09-08-2010, 08:16 PM
"I deciced to make it less Chic-ish and More Diana Ross-ish..they've been in the buisness what?..four years? I thought my 20 years of experience counted for something..." [[Diana on 'diana" 1980)

nomis
09-08-2010, 08:33 PM
"I did so much begging..I had scabs on my knees.." [[Suzanne DePasse on organising Motown 25)

Glenpwood
09-08-2010, 09:50 PM
"Why doesn't she leave him? He doesn't care about her. She doesn't get anything that we don't get.... Well, almost." [[Florence Ballard to Mary Wilson about DR & BG's relationship)

Glenpwood
09-08-2010, 09:58 PM
"Mary, you know that if you don't start acting like the boss, they will take over..." [[Cholly Atkins)

nomis
09-08-2010, 09:59 PM
"I ask myself..what am I holding today? Faith?..or ..Fear?" [[Diana on Oprah 2000)

nomis
09-08-2010, 10:50 PM
'heres what I did..I called Mary and Cindy..I said Have you been hearing the rumours?..alot of other stuff happened in the conversation...I dont want to get in to..the first thing out of her mouth was 'What took you so long to call...?' " [[Diana on calling Mary Oprah 2000)

MissLish
09-09-2010, 12:32 AM
Didn't your mama teach you how to close doors?

jsmith
09-09-2010, 01:44 AM
Now I've taught you how to climb out of a car gracefully, can you try to remember not to keep climbing all over the boss !!

unific29
09-09-2010, 02:47 AM
Im Rick James B*#^h!!!!!

nomis
09-09-2010, 05:50 AM
"No..they wont give you the Oscar..they will probably give it to Liza for sympathy over what happened to Judy..."
[[Ron Miller 1972)

sup_fan
09-09-2010, 03:07 PM
honey - we IS terrific

sup_fan
09-09-2010, 03:08 PM
as i was saying Johnny, they can't have a stand in for me. but we have 2 girls ready to step in for Mary and Florence at a moments notice

sup_fan
09-09-2010, 03:09 PM
call me Miss Ross!

jonc
09-09-2010, 03:58 PM
as i was saying Johnny, they can't have a stand in for me. but we have 2 girls ready to step in for Mary and Florence at a moments notice

And they did.

midnightman
09-09-2010, 05:30 PM
"Ain't nobody coming to see you Otis!"

nomis
09-09-2010, 05:48 PM
"we are not gonna sing that..its just 'Baby Baby Baby..' we want something like you gave the Vandellas..this is silly.."
[[Supremes to HDH on hearing Where Did Our Love Go.)

MissLish
09-09-2010, 05:53 PM
"Well, I don't put them on..to attend a..late...night....supper.."


"Well, excuse me Lady, I must have gotten you confused with someone who worked at Miss ah...What's her name?"

nomis
09-09-2010, 06:31 PM
"I hated what was happening to these three innocent girls - I hated every goddamn minute of it.."
[[Joe Shaffner interviewed by JRT)

nomis
09-09-2010, 06:36 PM
"It was all acting..the smiles,the tears,all of it.Just acting.Afterwards,there was a big scene backstage -an argument over something I dont remember.."
[[Cindy on the final performance of Diana Ross and The Supremes)

MissLish
09-09-2010, 07:12 PM
"Get off your knees; it's dark down there; I can't see what you're doing! Yo dee doe dee doe doe!"

Glenpwood
09-09-2010, 08:24 PM
"Girl, if you wanted to lay around all day, you's in the wrong end of the business...."

Glenpwood
09-09-2010, 08:32 PM
"I know how to drive, I'm from Detroit where these cars are MADE. Let me at that wheel!"

Glenpwood
09-09-2010, 08:34 PM
"If you don't stay away from my man, you're a dead woman!" [[Sharon Holland)

Glenpwood
09-09-2010, 08:37 PM
"If she wants to be a Marvellette, then she should be a godd**m Marvellette for all I care" [[DR during the period Florence was subbing for Wanda Young)

Glenpwood
09-09-2010, 08:38 PM
"I look back at those days and I say, damm, hows that for history..." [[Otis Williams)

Glenpwood
09-09-2010, 08:40 PM
"Success is NOTHING without someone you love to share it with....." [[BDW in Mahogany)

nomis
09-09-2010, 09:28 PM
Assistant : "Im afraid you cant see Miss Garland at the moment..shes asleep"
Diana : "Well..can we watch her sleep??"
[[1965 Houston)

luke
09-09-2010, 10:23 PM
Ive always said this in Diane's defense. Success did not make her a b....; she was a b...before she became famous. [[childhood friend)

luke
09-09-2010, 10:32 PM
"Who does this chick think she is, me?" [[Diana about Lynda Lawrence)

midnightman
09-10-2010, 12:13 AM
"David Ruffin and the *snap, snap* what's their name?"

pshark
09-10-2010, 12:18 AM
I saw Rick James in concert in 81 and he said something like
"Get off your ass, this ain't no f***ing Mills Brothers!"

jobeterob
09-10-2010, 01:04 AM
But.............Motown is forever............

nomis
09-10-2010, 01:59 AM
"its not as simple as that Berry..I want to know who im gonna be singing with..they have to meet my approval..."
[[Diana 1966)

jobeterob
09-10-2010, 02:32 AM
1. The first time I give it away, it ain't gonna be to no two dollar john in East Baltimore, that's for damn sure.

2. Just what every little girl needs...........a good friend like Harry.

3. Hey you know, the last time I saw fields and farm animules, I was hitchin up North from Baltimore, to see my Momma.

Nomis, you have some great memories and great ideas for threads.

I hope you are doing well these days. We love you.

smark21
09-10-2010, 07:43 AM
I want to name her Chutney. That's spelled "C-H-U-D-N-E-Y".

luke
09-10-2010, 09:19 AM
"Listen you, you better call me Miss Flo." "You listen, you better call me Miss Mary."

jonc
09-10-2010, 10:41 AM
"Diane, we're not getting any younger"

From the critically acclaimed, superbly acted movie "In The Name Of Love"

luke
09-11-2010, 09:04 AM
"No no no no no." Martha stompin around on stage at Girl Groups reunion upset that backup band was singing and playing Dancin in Streets on their own.

topdiva1
09-11-2010, 11:48 AM
"I'll cut you too short to s..t." Flo Ballard to Berry Gordy.

luke
09-11-2010, 01:40 PM
"I never said Id get in the way of Diane climbing to the top. Im just not gonna let her climb all over me!" Flo to Berry

MissLish
09-11-2010, 01:42 PM
"My hometowns are Rome, Paris, London.."

honest man
09-11-2010, 01:55 PM
GET BACK TO YOUR MICROPHONE, love it Ha

arrr&bee
09-11-2010, 02:30 PM
If it wasn't for me,miss ross would still be in the projects..paul williams!

Glenpwood
09-11-2010, 02:46 PM
"Diane is just the person I love and know and I say it with love actually. But people think I am being defiant. It's just my way of holding on to the person I love." [[Mary Wilson)

Glenpwood
09-11-2010, 02:52 PM
"It is a slap in the face. I hired these women in the 1970s. I found them. I hired them and got their record deal at Motown. I taught them; I invested in the gowns; I did everything." [[MW on being replaced by SP and LL for the RTL tour)

Glenpwood
09-11-2010, 02:56 PM
That was a mess. I was eager to do it, but there was not a good feeling among us. We were supposed to do two full songs and we didn't get through one. It was edited to look like we were there just to begin the finale … The highlight of "Motown 25" was supposed to be our reunion. Instead, it was Michael Jackson who stole the show!

[[Cindy Birdsong on the Motown 25 reunion

topdiva1
09-11-2010, 03:31 PM
"I will cut you to short to s---!!! [[Flo to Berry)

arrr&bee
09-11-2010, 04:21 PM
I call him-the prince of romance...melvin franklin on eddie kendricks!

arrr&bee
09-11-2010, 04:25 PM
That's it,barbara's out...diana ross on barbara martin's leaving the supremes!

arrr&bee
09-11-2010, 04:27 PM
Not one guy spoke up to keep david in the temptations...otis williams!

midnightman
09-11-2010, 05:07 PM
"Would you dare release a Picasso painting that he didn't declare finished? Hell no." - Marvin Gaye on Motown releasing "In Our Lifetime" without his consent.

nomis
09-11-2010, 05:51 PM
"theres one person who cant be here tonight..Flo..Florence Ballard..where ever she is Im sure shes Wooh Ho [[Snap fingers) ..Doin it !" [[Mary Motown 25)

arrr&bee
09-11-2010, 06:50 PM
Ya'll git rid of him...berry gordy to otis williams about damon harris.

luke
09-11-2010, 07:17 PM
"The but-tocks must never protrude!" Mrs. Powell on how to get out of a car.

jillfoster
09-11-2010, 07:36 PM
"Get me my MEDICINE!"

Glenpwood
09-11-2010, 07:38 PM
"Can I have the microphone please? Mary and I would like to have a silent prayer....."

Glenpwood
09-11-2010, 07:41 PM
"Mary, girl, I don't think you should go out there. This isn't a Copacabana audience...."

nomis
09-11-2010, 07:44 PM
"Have a drink on me..no have a drink on Mary.." [[DR Farewell)

luke
09-11-2010, 08:21 PM
"Claudette--you show him[[Smokey)how much I love him." Farewell

topdiva1
09-12-2010, 04:32 PM
"Better no mink, than cheap mink". Flo Ballard to Diana Ross.

topdiva1
09-14-2010, 03:00 AM
"Better no mink than cheap mink" Flo to Diana

marybrewster
09-14-2010, 10:35 AM
"They're taking our history but they don't have our DNA. It really is a form of identity theft.” - Mary Wilson

topdiva1
09-14-2010, 10:43 AM
" I knew they would come crawling" David Ruffin to Eddie Kendricks

topdiva1
09-14-2010, 05:11 PM
Once it was alright - tony turner

topdiva1
09-14-2010, 05:12 PM
That's a stupid woman - Berry Gordy commenting on Mary Wilson

Glenpwood
09-14-2010, 06:53 PM
"Well, you should just check before you go taking it upon yourself, MR. KNOW IT ALL, giving out people's addresses, because nobody around here died and left you boss. AND, you have NO CLASS WHATSOEVER!"

Diana Ross to Tony Turner in 1968, "All That Glittered" pg. 196 [[Quote caps reprinted as shown in book)

nomis
09-14-2010, 07:43 PM
"Tony Turner is dreaming.." [[Martha Reeves 1995)

topdiva1
09-14-2010, 09:46 PM
Anybody but Martha!!!

marybrewster
09-14-2010, 10:52 PM
"I'll roll my big self over the top of her" - Tony Turner, on Cindy Birdsong

topdiva1
09-14-2010, 10:56 PM
"Tony Turner is dreaming.." [[Martha Reeves 1995)


Nomis - where did this quote come from - what is the source?

jonc
09-14-2010, 11:02 PM
Nomis - where did this quote come from - what is the source?

Who needs a source? La Turner rarely named her sources.

pshark
09-14-2010, 11:32 PM
Why was the same quote repeated twice @ bottom of page 2 of this thread?

jillfoster
09-15-2010, 03:59 AM
Anybody but Martha!!!

What's wrong, topdiva? Is Martha too harsh for your taste?

topdiva1
09-15-2010, 10:32 AM
What's wrong, topdiva? Is Martha too harsh for your taste?


This is a quote from ALL THAT GLITTERED MY LIFE WITH THE SUPREMES - in the book the situation is where a friend of Mary Wilson's is mistaken for Martha Reeves and the lady makes that statement - ANYBODY BUT MARTHA - so you see it has nothing to do with me - thank you kindly.

marybrewster
09-15-2010, 06:16 PM
"But those things were heavy, one night I told Greg "Put some on me!"" - Tony Turner, on the Supremes eyelashes

marybrewster
09-15-2010, 06:18 PM
"Honey, you're starting to look kind of tired" - Flo Ballard to Tony Turner

marybrewster
09-15-2010, 06:21 PM
"Tony, you've been drinking" - Flo Ballard to Tony Turner

Glenpwood
09-15-2010, 06:57 PM
"You sound like a frog!" Tony Turner's Stepfather to Tony

Glenpwood
09-15-2010, 06:59 PM
"Honey, you didn't tell me it was this bad. Get me another tin of Beluga caviar" Flo Ballard

Glenpwood
09-15-2010, 07:08 PM
"Dont be surprised if you don't see me around here much longer, honey, they're trying to push me out, they're trying to make me quit. But I ain't going, they'll have to throw me out..." Flo Ballard

luke
09-15-2010, 07:53 PM
Glenwood-lolol that caviar quote!!

luke
09-15-2010, 07:56 PM
"HMMMMHMM" Florence after singing People at top of her lungs in dressing room and people applauding; after song taken from her and sung by Diana at Copa. All that Glittered.

topdiva1
09-15-2010, 08:51 PM
"Michael remained a perpetual kid, yet he was brillant enough to call most of the shots in his own career". from TO BE LOVED by BERRY GORDY

midnightman
09-15-2010, 09:38 PM
"It's my blood that runs through Jermaine's veins, not Berry Gordy's." - Joseph Jackson

jillfoster
09-15-2010, 10:06 PM
This is a quote from ALL THAT GLITTERED MY LIFE WITH THE SUPREMES - in the book the situation is where a friend of Mary Wilson's is mistaken for Martha Reeves and the lady makes that statement - ANYBODY BUT MARTHA - so you see it has nothing to do with me - thank you kindly.

Oh , yes! I remember that , now.

nomis
09-15-2010, 10:46 PM
"Theres just one thing everynight we have a different show and theres one reason - our conductor drinks!"
[[Diana stage patter mid -60s)

Glenpwood
09-15-2010, 11:15 PM
"Martha, don't you come in here with none of that, 'cus you ain't hardly kicking nobodys ass in here..." Florence Ballard

nomis
09-15-2010, 11:37 PM
Martha: "I want to scratch your eyes out!"
Diana: "But Martha..Berrys on the phone..he wants to speak to you.."
Gordy;"Now Martha..Diane didnt mean to buy the same dresses as you..when you get back to Detroit I will buy the Vandellas some new Dresses.."
[[1964)

topdiva1
09-16-2010, 12:06 PM
"I will never give you less than too much"!!! Diana Ross in Tony Turner's All That Glittered My Life With The Supremes.


And she has keep her word, thank God!!!!!

Glenpwood
09-16-2010, 01:03 PM
"Does anyone remember who won the Best Actress Oscar last year?"

Ron Miller when his session for "Touch Me In The Morning" was about to be shut down due to Diana's mood over losing the Oscar to Liza Minnelli

jobeterob
09-16-2010, 02:05 PM
About the Oscar......................no idea who won last year! Liza won that year and Helen Mirren won recently; but like most of the rest of the world, no idea who won last year.

"Ladies and Gentlemen: Live from the RKO Proctor Theatre in New Jersey, brought to you at great expense: Me!" [[Mary Wilson).

topdiva1
09-16-2010, 05:47 PM
"Although we decided to record and release records on Florence as a solo artist, before we could do so she got an offer from ABC Records and severed her relationship with Motown".

Berry Gordy in TO BE LOVED pg 256

Gordy the boss is the only one who ever put this forward - I do not recall this fact that Motown wanted to record Florence Ballard as a single at all. How could they? Supose Flo had gotten a hit record - good lawd - Ross would have went berserk. Just saying!

pshark
09-16-2010, 06:41 PM
Don Cornelius to Rick James

I said you'll never be nothing and now I gotta eat my wordsRJ's response

I said the same thing about you and I was true
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqBHC6f6Dko

topdiva1
09-16-2010, 08:41 PM
"But over the years no rumor was as painful to me as the one that accused MOTOWN of cheating it's artist" -


PG 270 in TO BE LOVED BY - BERRY GORDY.

nomis
09-21-2010, 07:45 PM
"Yes..this maybe the most important moment of my life..we are being televised live around the world again today!..I want you to calm yourselfs..listen..can you feel me?.." [[Diana Central park)

topdiva1
09-22-2010, 05:34 PM
"this must be the Miss Ross Show" Paul Williams of The Temptations about the TCB taping - Quote from Mary Wilson's Dreamgirl My Life As A Supreme.

jboy88
09-25-2010, 07:38 PM
"For the last time, I'm not Verdine White!"-Nick Ashford

topdiva1
09-25-2010, 07:45 PM
"For the last time, I'm not Verdine White!"-Nick Ashford



What a quote ! Thanks for this one.

jobeterob
09-26-2010, 02:44 AM
This isn't a quote...................but lawyer talk.

When Berry Gordy says his company wanted to record and release records on Florence Ballard, that is the best evidence you can get on a question like that; it was his company; he was there; he said it.

What I think of it, or what Diana Ross, or Tony Turner or Ralph Terrana, or Andy, or Top Diva think of it might be interesting but it is unacceptable evidence in Court and worthless as evidence.

We might not like it but there is no other better evidence.

Another quote: "I tried that and it didn't work."

topdiva1
09-26-2010, 01:32 PM
...."Mary, you'd say anything to get out at night."

Berry Gordy to Mary Wilson on page 234 in Too Be Loved by Berry Gordy

nomis
09-26-2010, 05:55 PM
"Phil Collins stole this song from me..so Im stealing it back" [[Diana Central Park)

topdiva1
09-26-2010, 06:26 PM
As I read the vast amount of Motown based books - I try to take the writers point of view and the reason why he or she may have felt that way at the time of the writing - for instance - he is a quote from Mama Diva Diana Ross herself, from Secrets of a Sparrow - page 154


"the girls had treated me very badly. They had gone against me with a vengeance." and in addition Ros said "...talked about behind my back when my back wasn't even turned." Ross is referring here to Mary Wilson and Cindy Birdsong. If you listen to Mary Wilson's accountants they differ - she seems o say that Cindy and herself - only love Diana.

So once again it is as the writer sees it - and what's so wrong about that - honey!!!

uptight
09-27-2010, 08:12 AM
Wow, PShark. Rick James says, "We're all talking about a possible film... We don't want to say too much about it..." Meanwhile, rival Prince and his management begin planning such a musical film.

jobeterob
09-27-2010, 11:10 AM
"Wow, this room! It's been 20 years, more than 20 years since we first appeared here, in a tape I saw today. Anyways, I'm happy to be here; I've rushed a long way; I hope you've had a good time."

Diana Ross, the Motown at the Apollo Finale

pshark
09-27-2010, 04:13 PM
Wow, PShark. Rick James says, "We're all talking about a possible film... We don't want to say too much about it..." Meanwhile, rival Prince and his management begin planning such a musical film.Hey Uptight
Yes I remember they were talking about a movie called ALICE IN GHETTOLAND with Teena Marie playing Alice. I don't know why the movie was never released but I'm guessing that Motown was afraid it was going to flop like THANK GOD IS FRIDAY & THE WIZ. And also the non Motown film SGT PEPPER'S LONELY HEART CLUB BAND. Here's an old Jet article:
http://books.google.com/books?id=trYDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA61&lpg=PA61&dq=alice+in+ghettoland+rik+james&source=bl&ots=esfXgfOplT&sig=QssQrf0ZQaAWujnNER6iNzl8tWE&hl=en&ei=zfWgTPKJAaKAtgPEuoCxAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false

And there's another Jet article where Don Cornelius admts that he really don't like Rick James. I think there were rumors of RJ & Suzanne DePasse, Don's girlfriend at the time.

jobeterob
09-27-2010, 05:24 PM
"She's one of the finest people I've ever met." Rick James on Diana Ross

nomis
09-27-2010, 05:33 PM
"What Kind of Book is it Mary? Is it a good book or a bad book?" [[Diana to Mary backstage '85 on Dreamgirls manuscript)

pshark
09-28-2010, 09:04 PM
What better way to quote someone than to actually hear it coming straight from their mouths?

Barry Gordy is a man I do not know. I only met him about 3 times.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW1I7TWdWW8

marxthespot
09-30-2010, 06:29 PM
..."Stop hurting me [[hurting me, hurting me)...Now don't you think you're overdoing it?"........

[[First line of that "unforgettable" early Supremes "classic" "My Heart Can't Take It No More."

marxthespot
09-30-2010, 06:33 PM
"...I am now a part of the Gordy family, I am a sister..."

[[Diana @ Supremes farewell concert 1970...what the heck did she mean by that?)

topdiva1
09-30-2010, 07:33 PM
What better way to quote someone than to actually hear it coming straight from their mouths?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW1I7TWdWW8

This says a lot.

"Once it was alright". Tony Turner - from both All That Glittered and Deliver Us From Temptaion - a last line if ever there was one.

nomis
09-30-2010, 08:13 PM
Assistant: Miss Ross would like you and Miss Minnelli to get off the piano and join the other guests outside..Miss Ross's Children are asleep...
Bianca Jagger: Tell Miss Ross she can can come and tell us herself in person!
[[Mid 70s party at Dianas house for The Rolling Stones)

topdiva1
10-01-2010, 08:24 AM
Assistant: Miss Ross would like you and Miss Minnelli to get off the piano and join the other guests outside..Miss Ross's Children are asleep...
Bianca Jagger: Tell Miss Ross she can can come and tell us herself in person!
[[Mid 70s party at Dianas house for The Rolling Stones)

Assitant - "hooker, please" - [[tony turner)

scanspeak
04-01-2012, 07:44 AM
"It's all over your face, someone's takin' your place" - Levi Stubbs to Dennis Edwards [[Motown 25).

nomis
04-02-2012, 07:34 PM
"Why are you folks requesting a piano ?? " [[Ralph Seltzer to Lamont Dozier )

nomis
04-02-2012, 07:38 PM
"I made it more Diana Ross -than Chic..theyve been in the buisness what ? three years ? I thought my 20 years counted for something.." [[Diana at press conference on Terrana mixes)

luke
04-02-2012, 08:38 PM
Not sure if this was posted-Pat Sajak to Suzanne DePasse-"Who did you find diificult to work with?"
SDP-"Id say pound for pound the biggest pain in the ass was Diana Ross."[[or something close to it)