How They Got Over (2018)

Dennis Edwards: Self - Temptations

Quotes 

• Dennis Edwards : Get your shirt out of the cleaners, go to the next church and they raise the offering, the third offering, pastor gonna get the first two, you know, you know.

• Dennis Edwards : We all formed a little group called the Revelation Wonders. We had a big show at the Ebenezer Baptist Church and we were opening up for a young man from Chicago by the name of Sam Cooke - and the Soul Stirrers. He was - so smooth. He could tear your house up - with three lyrics.

  [sings] 

  Dennis Edwards : There was a woman, In the Bible days...

• Dennis Edwards : Gospel was huge back then; but, it was - we had our own special audience. But, the people that loved us, didn't have any money. You know, so...

• Dennis Edwards : Although you sing really good when you sing rock-n-roll, it's difficult to get into that zone of feeling, you know, and touching.

• Dennis Edwards : When I got in the Temptations, I'm telling my mother, I said, "Mother, I'm gonna be in the greatest group in the world." She say, "I'm gonna pray for you." She say, "Why are you singin' for the devil?" And I remember, I'd buy a cars and stuff and she always asks me, "You didn't steal that, did you?"

• Dennis Edwards : Your young and you want to sing, you harmonize, you go - you go in the alley and you try to get three or four guys together and you harmonize until it sounded great. And people would run us off the corner, "Get that mess away from my house. Go down the block." We go down the block. That's how the Detroit sound actually started.

• Dennis Edwards : It wasn't an easy life. But, I tell you what, it gave each one of us that since of pride and that sense of dignity and it made us better people.