Otis Redding Quotes

11 quotes by 11 authors

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
I started singing rhythmically, and now I'm learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it — Janis Joplin
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
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
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
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
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
Elvis wore a halo. Otis Redding did, too. You knew you were playing with a star when you played with them. — Donald Dunn
The road has taken a lot of the great ones: Hank Williams, Buddy Holly, Otis Redding, Janis, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis. — Robbie Robertson
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
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: