Otis Redding Quotes
11 quotes by 11 authors
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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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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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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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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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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 Redding Quotes
11 authors contributed a total of 11 Otis Redding Quotes as follows: