Put your hands on your hip, let your back bone slip. Do the Watusi, like my little Lucy. — Wilson Pickett Bones 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
You see, I wanted to sing gospel, but I wanted to make me some money, too. — Wilson Pickett Christianity Copy Share Image
I'm going to wait til the midnight hour, that's when my love begins to shine. — Wilson Pickett Expression Copy Share Image
I can't keep singing 'Midnight Hour' for the rest of life. I gotta change. — Wilson Pickett Change 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
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
If you get the disco or rap format on the radio, an R&B record doesn't fit, because it will break up the… — Wilson Pickett Disco 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
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
I took a long rest period. I didn't know heads or tails of what anybody wanted; it seemed as if R&B had… — Wilson Pickett Heads or tails 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
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
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 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
People like me and Aretha Franklin and Joe Tex, we had predicted that inside of five years disco would be all over,… — Wilson Pickett Being Copy Share Image
I have allergies, so I use an inhaler, but it's all right. — Wilson Pickett Allergies Copy Share Image
I write about things that are really happening, serious things. — Wilson Pickett About 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 had recorded a song 'If You Need Me' for the Correc-Tone label, but it was a small label and distribution was… — Wilson Pickett Me 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
When I started buying my mother all these homes, like a second home in Kentucky, where I moved most of my family,… — Wilson Pickett Buying 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 Cheated 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
I thought wasn't nobody supposed to get gold records except those people on Motown, like Smokey Robinson and Diana Ross. — Wilson Pickett Gold Copy Share Image
When I make a record, I want to use some electronics, although I still want to keep things pretty basic. — Wilson Pickett Electronics Copy Share Image
The older songs were better songs, because they had lyrics with a story to tell. Aretha and Otis told stories. — Wilson Pickett Better 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
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
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
