"I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the history of music"

"Music is my religion"

"The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down"

"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon"

"Music is the shorthand of emotion"

"History is a set of lies agreed upon"

"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect"

"My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary"

"We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans"

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away"

"It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do"