“She was a study. I could see how ambitious she was. How strong she was. People ask me: ‘Did you know she was going to be ‘Madonna’? Of course, I didn’t know how big she was gonna be, but I knew she was gonna go pretty far. I’ve never met anyone like her in my whole life. I believed in her and I wrestled to get her signed very, very quickly.” a proposito della sua scoperta di maggior successo commerciale.

 (Seymour Stein, talent scout, fondatore e presidente della Sire Records; Brooklyn, 18 aprile 1942 – Los Angeles, 2 aprile 2023)