Otis Redding Quotes
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Otis Redding Quotes & Sayings
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Give yourself freedom to try out new things
Don't be so set in your ways that you can't grow. — Paulo Coelho
Don't be so set in your ways that you can't grow. — Paulo Coelho
My parents had a huge pile of records - vinyl! - that I loved, especially the Motown stuff, Steely Dan, Stevie Wonder, Otis Redding.
— Jonny Lang
I love England from head to toe. I love the weather, the people. I was there in the summer and it was nice. The people are so groovy.
— Otis Redding
Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.
— Swami Vivekananda
When I started playing, I played in R&B bands. I played James Brown, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding and all that.
— Neil Peart
The road has taken a lot of the great ones: Hank Williams, Buddy Holly, Otis Redding, Janis, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis.
— Robbie Robertson
When men believed too strongly, it made them cruel.
— Edward Rutherfurd
Elvis wore a halo. Otis Redding did, too. You knew you were playing with a star when you played with them.
— Donald Dunn
Charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
This loneliness won't leave me alone.
— Otis Redding
I'm prouder of my weight loss than my Oscar!
— Jennifer Hudson
I was just a music lover who wondered what it would sound like if Otis Redding strapped on a guitar and played in a punk band. That's it.
— Benjamin Booker
His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
— Dorothy Parker
When I go into the studio, I'm strictly for business ... I don't like any fooling around in the studio.
— Otis Redding
R-E-S-P-E-C-T, take out the TCP.
— Otis Redding
I started singing rhythmically, and now I'm learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
— Janis Joplin
I want people to see an honesty within me. I'm not trying to be the next Sam Cooke or Otis Redding.
— Leon Bridges
You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
— Abbie Hoffman
I have never believed in comparisons, whether they are about different eras, players or coaches.
— Sachin Tendulkar
I love the pioneers like Sam Cooke and Otis Redding, but when I write music, it comes out in my own way.
— Leon Bridges
Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that won't.
— Dorianne Laux