Martha Reeves famous quotes

06-27-2025

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.
-- Martha Reeves

#Party #Tomorrow #Disco
I don't worry about being in a hurry anymore, because my faith in God will always deliver me on time.
-- Martha Reeves

#Worry #Faith In God #Gods Will
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.
-- Martha Reeves

#School #People #Training
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.
-- Martha Reeves

#Attitude #Taken #Personality
Oh, Jimmy Mack, when are you comin' back?
-- Martha Reeves

#Mack #Jimmy
Divas need their furs!
-- Martha Reeves

#Needs #Fur
Most performers spend half their earnings taking care of family members.
-- Martha Reeves

#Half #Care #Earning
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.
-- Martha Reeves

#Awards #Long #People
The world I was born into was one filled with music.
-- Martha Reeves

#World #Born #Filled
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.
-- Martha Reeves

#Thinking #Pops #Show Business
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.
-- Martha Reeves

#Light #Average #Mad
I pray for miracles. I have always found prayer to bring quick results.
-- Martha Reeves

#Prayer #Miracle #Praying
I will always dance in the street.
-- Martha Reeves

#Streets
I worshipped Berry Gordy for the creative dreams he had made come true.
-- Martha Reeves

#Dream #Creativity #Creative
Good and bad - this is the story of my life.
-- Martha Reeves

#Life #Stories #Good And Bad
The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.
-- Martha Reeves

#Dream #Morning #Jobs
I still marvel at how God turns dreams into reality.
-- Martha Reeves

#Dream #Reality #Turns
A large family makes you accept sharing your parents.
-- Martha Reeves

#Parent #Accepting #Large Family
After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.
-- Martha Reeves

#Simple #Years #Squares
God uses singers in a mighty way, and I am grateful.
-- Martha Reeves

#Grateful #Singers #Way
I have always thought music as a way out of the ordinary mundane obligations of life.
-- Martha Reeves

#Way #Ordinary #Obligation
Going on with life, it only gets more and more intense as time goes by - and the challenges only multiply.
-- Martha Reeves

#Challenges #Intense #Time Goes By
Detroit is full of talent.
-- Martha Reeves

#Detroit #Talent
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.
-- Martha Reeves

#Want #Towns #Sides

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