Black Quote by Chrissie Hynde

I heard Otis Redding singing 'These Arms of Mine' and I knew that was the band I needed.

— Wilson Pickett

Willie Nelson, Marty Robbins, Merle Haggard and Keith Whitley - guys like that were huge influences.

— Sturgill Simpson

I remember as a young man seeing these bigger-than-life, strong images of black manhood in the form of Jim Brown and Fred Williamson, Jim…

— Michael Jai White

When we were starting, the only old guys you'd see on stage were blues guys. They played every night, feast or famine, skint, rich,…

— Jim Kerr

I been doing the same things as in my younger days, when I was coming up, and now here I am, an old man,…

— John Lee Hooker

Here's the mark that a lot of people miss nowadays. Producers missed. They leave out the heart and soul. And that's what I learned…

— Donny Osmond

Look at Montgomery Gentry. If those boys came out in the '70s, they'd be Southern rock.

— Johnny Van Zant

People like Sam Cooke and Otis Redding - I do not put myself in that category.

— Lewis Capaldi

Otis Redding was the ultimate 60s soul singer. We only get an indication of what he might have become, but he had the best…

— Mick Hucknall

While growing up in Birmingham around a lot of West Indian people, reggae and calypso were big influences early on but Otis Redding was…

— Roland Gift

When I was a boy I remember the women, how they dressed, how they behaved, what was important to them at the time. Like…

— Manolo Blahnik