Lionel Richie
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Podcast Appearances
What the hell am I doing here with this band?
I'm not the lead singer.
I sing some cover songs.
And then you walk down the hall and there's Marvin.
So I decided I'm going to interview Marvin.
What music conservatory did you graduate from?
And he said, what the hell is that?
I said, well, I mean, how do you write your music?
He said, no, no, little brother.
He says, all that you can't play with three fingers, hum it into a tape recorder.
And then you go down the hall again, and it's smoky.
And there's Barry Gordy, who built Motown.
Excuse me, Mr. Gordy, what university did you graduate from?
He said, I was at a car plant.
What are you talking about?
Everything that I grew up with on the campus of Tuskegee as a kid, I grew up on the university campus.