Otis Redding

When I go into the studio, I'm strictly for business... I don't like any fooling around in the studio.

— Otis Redding

If you want to be a singer, you've got to concentrate on it twenty-four hours a day. You can't be a well…

— Otis Redding

Sittin' here resting my bones, this loneliness won't leave me alone. Two thousand miles I roam, just to make this dock my…

— Otis Redding

You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do…

— Otis Redding

These arms of mine, they are burning, burning from wanting you. These arms of mine, they are wanting, wanting to hold you.

— Otis Redding

Hey there, here I am. I'm the man on the scene. I can give you what you want but you got to…

— Otis Redding

I need me somebody, somebody to treat me right. I need your arms, loving arms to hold me tight.

— Otis Redding

Baby, here I am, the man on your scene. I can give you what you want but you got to come home…

— Otis Redding

You've got to hold her, don't squeeze her. Never leave her.

— Otis Redding

I need your, I need your tender lips, to hold me. To hold me together when I'm around you.

— Otis Redding

Pretty little thing, let me light your candle. 'Cause mama I'm sure hard to handle.

— Otis Redding

Love is their whole happiness, yeah but it's all so easy.

— Otis Redding

You are tired and your love is growing cold. My love is growing stronger as our affair, grows old.

— Otis Redding

I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay. Watching the tide roll away. Ooo, I'm just sittin' on the dock of the…

— Otis Redding

It makes it easier. Easier to bare, yeah.

— Otis Redding

I forgot some good old lovin' and I got me some more in store. When I get to thrown it on you,…

— Otis Redding

I love England from head to toe. I love the weather, the people. I was there in the summer and it was…

— Otis Redding

If I were to leave the U.S., I'd live in England. But I'd never leave the U.S. I own a 400-acre farm…

— Otis Redding

As I was growing up, I did a lot of talent shows. I won fifteen Sunday nights straight in a series of…

— Otis Redding

This loneliness won't leave me alone.

— Otis Redding

Toys and things that come by the dozen. That ain't nothin' but drug store lovin.

— Otis Redding

These arms of mine, they are lonely, lonely and feeling blue. These arms of mine, they are yearning, yearning from wanting you.

— Otis Redding

I can't turn you loose now, if I do I'm gonna loose my life. Honey, I can't...

— Otis Redding

Sitting in the morning sun, I'll be sitting when the evening comes

— Otis Redding

You won't regret it, no no. Young girls they don't forget it.

— Otis Redding