Bobby Womack

People shout out for songs and I don't even remember writing them.

— Bobby Womack

When I first played New York, it was with James Brown at the Apollo, and I was playing in a band under…

— Bobby Womack

When I want to check out how my lifes been, I go through my albums. They steps in my life.

— Bobby Womack

Leave them wanting more and you know they'll call you back.

— Bobby Womack

I was hoping I could become a success to give my mother and my father a better way of living.

— Bobby Womack

When I want to check out how my life's been, I go through my albums. They steps in my life.

— Bobby Womack

You gotta know when it's time to hang up. But when I finally go, let me go out on stage, my perfect…

— Bobby Womack

Plantation gospel music was the stuff I fell in love with when I was a kid - these beautiful melodies and these…

— Bobby Womack

I think people like it when I tell them, 'I'm lucky to be here, because they are, too. Ain't nothing to do…

— Bobby Womack

I keep living life as it's dealt to me. Sometimes, it's not dealt 100 percent. Sometimes it's dealt on the low '30s.

— Bobby Womack

I like to swim, I like to play with my dogs and I love to eat - but I have to start…

— Bobby Womack

The bravest man in the universe Is the one who has forgiven first.

— Bobby Womack

You knew the difference between Barbra Streisand and Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles, straight away. Now everyone sounds like each…

— Bobby Womack

I will play my part by singing the spirit into every open heart.

— Bobby Womack

Estee Lauder cologne. Sam Cooke always wore it, and I started wearing it because he wore it.

— Bobby Womack

I was on stage with Cyndi Lauper, and my trousers split. It seemed like she was going to sing for ever.

— Bobby Womack

When I was a kid, during those days, you couldn't use instruments. It was against the pastor's religion, so all the singers…

— Bobby Womack

Across th street is a hell of a tester.

— Bobby Womack

I know a lot of people who are not here anymore, and I wonder why I'm still here... Not a day goes…

— Bobby Womack

We take things for granted, and because we wake up every day, you start talking about what you're going to do next…

— Bobby Womack

You learn if you mind stay open. And once you can't learn no more, your mind must be closed. Life goes on…

— Bobby Womack

People think you have to go through a lot of changes to become a soul singer, You just have to go through…

— Bobby Womack

I'm amazed by the ground that I covered. The music's the number-one thing. And if it isn't, you better quit now.

— Bobby Womack

I never gave up on music, and I feel like music never gave up on me.

— Bobby Womack

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

— Bobby Womack