I made two or three albums with money from my own pocket, but I couldn't get them released or played on the… — Wilson Pickett Business 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… — Wilson Pickett Getting played 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… — Wilson Pickett Enjoy 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,… — Wilson Pickett Butt Copy Share Image
Berry Gordy believed in owning the artist for life and controlling everything: the money, the station wagons, everything. — Wilson Pickett Art 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… — Wilson Pickett Never Copy Share Image
Put your hands on your hip, let your back bone slip. Do the Watusi, like my little Lucy. — Wilson Pickett Bones Copy Share Image
Anytime you've got artists singing songs, doing grooves that they don't want to do, it's terrible. — Wilson Pickett Art 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,… — Wilson Pickett Anything 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.… — Wilson Pickett Friendship Copy Share Image
Singing like I do is very hard, and as you get older, it's getting harder and harder all the time. — Wilson Pickett Get Copy Share Image
You can talk about all the great guitarists you want Jimi Hendrix or whoever but as far as I'm concerned, Duane Allman… — Wilson Pickett Best Copy Share Image
I perform as much as I can, to the extent I don't want to sell myself out. — Wilson Pickett I can Copy Share Image
I'd lived in New Jersey for 30 years. That was long enough. It's too crowded up there, and it's a very dangerous… — Wilson Pickett Dangerous Copy Share Image
I write about things that are really happening, serious things. — Wilson Pickett About Copy Share Image
Joe Stubbs was very jealous of me, especially after 'I Found a Love.' We'd be on stage and he'd lay traps for… — Wilson Pickett Bad Copy Share Image
If I wasn't in show business I don't know what I would have been - a wanderer or something, you know? But… — Wilson Pickett Business Copy Share Image
I have boxes of gospel LPs and 78s. The Davis Sisters, the Soul Stirrers, the Pilgrim Travellers. I love all that. — Wilson Pickett Boxes Copy Share Image
All disco singers are non-professionals who can't do live shows. It loses what black people have created. — Wilson Pickett Black Copy Share Image
