Redding Quotes

16 quotes by 16 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
• Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading? — Henry David Thoreau
• 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
• Hendrix was big in England. We all became good friends and I am still in touch with Noel Redding. — Jimmy Carl Black
• Everything you do is autobiographical. Yeah, I grew up in a town called Redding and I had older brothers and sisters so it's all my… — Ricky Gervais
• 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
• We happened to be in the studio next door and I think Noel Redding came around and said, 'Do you fancy having a sing on… — Roy Wood
• In 1967, I was 21, and the only guy I knew in London was Neville Chester, a roadie who worked with the Who. I rang… — Motorhead
• An Otis Redding song, it's all I own. — The Police

Who Wrote These Redding Quotes

16 authors contributed a total of 16 Redding Quotes as follows:

• 1 Redding Quote by Chrissie Hynde
• 1 Redding Quote by Jon Landau
• 1 Redding Quote by Steven Van Zandt
• 1 Redding Quote by Donald Dunn
• 1 Redding Quote by Robbie Robertson
• 1 Redding Quote by Langhorne Slim
• 1 Redding Quote by Roy Wood
• 1 Redding Quote by Motorhead
• 1 Redding Quote by The Police
• 1 Redding Quote by Roland Gift
• 1 Redding Quote by Janis Joplin
• 1 Redding Quote by Steve Cropper
• 1 Redding Quote by Henry David Thoreau
• 1 Redding Quote by Robin Thicke
• 1 Redding Quote by Jimmy Carl Black
• 1 Redding Quote by Ricky Gervais