Edwin Starr Quotes

• If you can make the family life and the music work together that’s wonderful. If you can make it work.

  Edwin Starr

  Topics in Family, Life, Work

  Tags in Music

• I knew that I had a following here in England, and if I came over here maybe I could cultivate it, but I never dreamt it would be as great as it has been.

  Edwin Starr

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Following, England

• Well, nine times out of ten when you have 2 or 3 stars in a household you have an unfortunate amount of competition that’s not necessarily a healthy competition.

  Edwin Starr

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Healthy, Competition

• And me, myself personally, in order for there to be any kind of longevity there’s gotta be some history.

  Edwin Starr

  Topics in History

  Tags in Myself

• Most artists come in and out of the country, they stay may be 2 weeks – or a month max and then they leave.

  Edwin Starr

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Artists

• It’s not like it used to be where everybody has a record company to belong to.

  Edwin Starr

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Record, Company

• I do more work in Britain than I do anywhere else in the world.

  Edwin Starr

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Self, Britain

• The record industry is a world within itself.

  Edwin Starr

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Industry, Record

• You can only be lucky if you have a place to record.

  Edwin Starr

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Yourself, Lucky

• Which I would’ve done ’cause I volunteered for the draft which meant that I only had to do two years. But when the Cubans had missiles in the Canal and Kennedy made the extension, I was one of the ones who had enough time to be extended.

  Edwin Starr

• Unfortunately, I’m not one of those people who take pictures, you know, carry a camera. Because if I did I’d have stack’s and stack’s and stack’s of different act’s. I got a lot here – I know what I done.

  Edwin Starr

Edwin Starr (11)

Birth:	21st January, 1942
Death:	2nd April, 2003
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Singer

About

Edwin Starr was born in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. He was an American soul music singer. He is famous for his Norman Whitfield-produced Motown singles of the 1970s, most notably the number one hit "War". Besides "War", Starr's songs "25 Miles" and "Stop the War Now" were also major successes in the 1960s. The song which launched his career was "Agent Double-O-Soul", a reference to the James Bond films popular at the time.

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