Top 14 Quotes & Sayings by Edwin Starr

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Edwin Starr.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Charles Edwin Hatcher known by his stage name Edwin Starr, was an American singer and songwriter. Starr was famous for his Norman Whitfield-produced Motown singles of the 1970s, most notably the number-one hit "War".

American - Musician | January 21, 1942 - April 2, 2003

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

Edwin Starr

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

Edwin Starr

The record industry is a world within itself.

Edwin Starr

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

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

Edwin Starr

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

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

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

Edwin Starr

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

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

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

War can't give life, it can only take it away.

Edwin Starr

War is the enemy of all mankind.

Edwin Starr

War, what's it good for? Absolutely nothing. Say it again.

Edwin Starr