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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… — 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… — Steve Cropper
• Bob Dylan and John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen, these are soul guys. Bruce Springsteen might not sing like Otis Redding, but he… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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,… — Langhorne Slim
• An Otis Redding song, it's all I own. — The Police

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