Singing like I do is very hard, and as you get older, it's getting harder and harder all the time. — Wilson Pickett Copy Share Image
I live in Virginia alone, and sometimes there's too much time to think. So you turn on the TV, but sometimes that don't do, so you turn the music on, and sometimes that don't do, and so you try and… — Wilson Pickett Copy Share Image
I made two or three albums with money from my own pocket, but I couldn't get them released or played on the radio. I… — Wilson Pickett Copy Share Image
If I'm not getting played on the radio and I'm not making any money, I have nothing to lose by telling the truth. — Wilson Pickett Copy Share Image
We used to have a lot of fun. We got cheated out of a lot of money, but we seemed to enjoy ourselves anyway. — Wilson Pickett Copy Share Image
One of the secretaries at Atlantic Records caught me pinching one of the other secretaries on the butt one morning. She said, 'My, you… — Wilson Pickett Copy Share Image
Berry Gordy believed in owning the artist for life and controlling everything: the money, the station wagons, everything. — Wilson Pickett Copy Share Image
I took five hit records to Memphis, and '634-5789' was stolen from me totally. Those songs are worth millions. I've never understood how someone… — Wilson Pickett Copy Share Image
Put your hands on your hip, let your back bone slip. Do the Watusi, like my little Lucy. — Wilson Pickett Copy Share Image
Anytime you've got artists singing songs, doing grooves that they don't want to do, it's terrible. — Wilson Pickett Copy Share Image
The baddest woman in my book... my mother. I get scared of her now. She used to hit me with anything, skillets, stove wood. — Wilson Pickett Copy Share Image
I'd start to sing, and the record would start skipping. You'd be skipping along with it. Those were the days, my friend. We'd look… — Wilson Pickett Copy Share Image
