Creativity Quote by Smokey Robinson

Smokey Robinson slips a quiet moral check into plainspoken language, the kind that lands because it sounds like something you tell yourself in the mirror, not a sermon from a pulpit. “Very physical creatures” is both biological fact and cultural diagnosis: we’re wired for sensation, but we’ve also built an economy that monetizes that wiring. His “we worry” is doing heavy lifting, implicating everyone without turning it into an accusation. It’s confessional, communal, and therefore harder to dismiss.

The real bite is in the comparison: “how we look” versus “our spiritual selves.” Robinson isn’t attacking vanity so much as naming a lopsided attention budget. “Sometimes more than” is the key qualifier; he leaves room for human reality while still pointing to a chronic imbalance. Subtext: appearance has become an all-hours project, while interior life gets treated like an optional add-on, a hobby you’ll get to when the bills are paid and the photos are posted.

Coming from a musician whose career was built on packaging emotion into performance, the line carries extra resonance. Motown was famously about polish - choreography, suits, the whole machine of looking effortless. Robinson knows the seduction of surfaces because he helped perfect them. That’s what gives the observation its credibility: it’s not a rejection of the physical, it’s a reminder that the shine is supposed to serve the song, not replace it. In an era of curated identities and algorithmic beauty standards, his phrasing reads like a gentle protest against living as our own publicists.