Otis Quotes
25 Otis quotes by 23 unique authors
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Guys like Otis Blackwell and Bobby Darin, and all the guys who were writing songs for Elvis at the time, just hanging around, writing songs,…
— Johnny Ramistella
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I'd hate to be a songwriter starting a career today...Al Stanton walked in one day and said, 'Otis, I've got an idea. Why don't you…
— Otis Blackwell
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Ladies and gentlemen, Otis Alexander Sudeikis has LEFT the building! (I'm the building)
— Olivia Wilde
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I cant think of anything more humiliating than losing a ballgame to a guy who steals home on you. It happened to me one time…
— Nolan Ryan
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Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears…
— Beverly Cleary
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While growing up in Birmingham around a lot of West Indian people, reggae and calypso were big influences early on but Otis Redding was the…
— Roland Gift
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No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it…
— David Halberstam
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I started singing rhythmically, and now I'm learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
— Janis Joplin
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If you took a little of Sam Cooke and a little of Little Richard, and poured it in a jar and shook it up and…
— Steve Cropper
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Bob Dylan and John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen, these are soul guys. Bruce Springsteen might not sing like Otis Redding, but he sings with white…
— Robin Thicke
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Johnny Guitar... just one of my favorite singers of all time. I met him when we were both on the road with Johnny Otis in…
— Etta James
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Otis Brawley is one of America's truly outstanding physician scientists. In How We Do Harm, he challenges all of us-- physicians, patients, and communities-- to…
— David Satcher
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I saw stars like Helen Hayes, Maurice Evans, Tallulah Bankhead and Cornelia Otis Skinner. It was enchanting. I knew that was the world I wanted…
— Sada Thompson
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Remember those black-and-white films with Frank Sinatra? Those guys looked like men and they were only 27! Listen to Otis Redding singing 'Try A Little…
— Chrissie Hynde
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Atlantic's Jerry Wexler believes first-rate records are made by first-rate voices. He certainly has worked with enough of them: Clyde McPhatter, Joe Turner, La Vern…
— Jon Landau
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The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist. It's a different world without Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix,…
— Steven Van Zandt
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Otis D'ablo is alive! Do you here me? He is alive and trying to kill me!
— Heather Brewer
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They'll torture you for months before killing you if you run" Otis shrugged, as if this was an everyday occurrence.
— Heather Brewer
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Everyone hates clowns," Otis said. "Even other clowns hate clowns.
— Rick Riordan
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Otis barreled towards them empty-handed, before apparently realizing that a) he was empty-handed and b) charging towards a large body of water to fight a…
— Rick Riordan
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Elvis wore a halo. Otis Redding did, too. You knew you were playing with a star when you played with them.
— Donald Dunn
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The road has taken a lot of the great ones: Hank Williams, Buddy Holly, Otis Redding, Janis, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis.
— Robbie Robertson
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I felt a little uncomfortable because, when I went in to the military, I was the main male vocalist they had and when I came…
— William Bell
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When I listen to most forms of music, in their most raw and pure, it all has a punk edge to me, like Lead Belly,…
— Langhorne Slim
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An Otis Redding song, it's all I own.
— The Police
Who Wrote These Otis Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 25 Otis Quotes as follows: