Dennis Edwards

“The secret to The Temptations is the music: simple music about a man loving a woman. We talk about the lady when we need her, when we want her to be there; we talk about ain't too proud to beg. It's simple, you know? You can't go wrong.”

“When The Temptations began, we wanted to be visual. So we did our own choreography and developed our own uniforms.”

“We have a portion of our show where we ask everybody to get up and do the Temptation Walk. People 8 to 80 know how to do that Temptation Walk.”

“The thrill of standing on the stage and hearing the crowd, it's the greatest feeling in the world. It's a blessed feeling.”

“I had a mother who prayed for me, and prayer changes everything.”

“I'd like to thank God for giving me the opportunity to sing with the greatest group in the world.”

“I'm not an original member, though I'm sort of an original member. I've been on a lot of records and took them to great heights. For them to make me the sixth Temptation is quite an honor.”

“We always felt that there was some hanky-panky going on with our money. We were the No. 1 group in the world, but we weren't paid like that.”

“Country life is different from city life, but I think it was good for me. Working on the farm, I got a balance in my life.”

“I used to tell my mother, 'I'm going to have to get a real job one day.' You keep saying this will end one day, but people still call us up and ask us to sing. It's truly amazing.”

“We never do two shows the same way. The audience has a lot to do with that spontaneity, and it's our job to satisfy them.”

“There were a lot of great acts at Motown, and some of them were hard to get along with.”

“When I first got to Motown, Smokey was already a fixture there. To me, he is one of the greatest songwriters and poets, so anything they ask me to do for Smokey is going to get a yes.”

“I had some good Alabama raising. You might do something wrong, but you wouldn't do it but once.”

“Every Motown act dressed classy, and we were clean-cut. Whenever you saw a Motown act, they were polished, and they knew how to treat people.”

“Sam Cooke was a gospel singer like myself, and when he crossed over and started singing rock n' roll, it kind of gave me the green light to go ahead and do it.”

“My whole life, I've been a Temptation.”

“A singer knows how he wants the song to go, and a writer visualizes how he wants the song to go.”

“Marvin Gaye was a friend of mine, and he used to say, 'Man, I wish I could sing like you - if I could have that growl in my voice.' And I said, 'Man, are you kidding me? I want to sing like you. Everybody wants to sing like you.'”

“When you're doing something you love to do, when you have a gift, it's the most rewarding thing.”