"I'm so proud of all the youngsters [to whom] we old-school people passed along the torch... You guys have to pass it along to the next generation. It's like something [Motown founder] Berry Gordy told me a long time ago. He said, 'You'll come and go, [but] music will stay here forever, no matter what you do.'"
-- Rick James, 1948-2004, as quoted by MTV at the ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Awards in June.



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