Quote by Otis Redding

When I go into the studio, I'm strictly for business... I don't like any fooling around in the studio.

— Otis Redding

If you want to be a singer, you've got to concentrate on it twenty-four hours a day. You can't be a well driller, too.…

— Otis Redding

Sittin' here resting my bones, this loneliness won't leave me alone. Two thousand miles I roam, just to make this dock my home. I'm…

— Otis Redding

You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song…

— Otis Redding

These arms of mine, they are burning, burning from wanting you. These arms of mine, they are wanting, wanting to hold you.

— Otis Redding

Hey there, here I am. I'm the man on the scene. I can give you what you want but you got to come home…

— Otis Redding

I need me somebody, somebody to treat me right. I need your arms, loving arms to hold me tight.

— Otis Redding

Baby, here I am, the man on your scene. I can give you what you want but you got to come home with me.

— Otis Redding

You've got to hold her, don't squeeze her. Never leave her.

— Otis Redding

Pretty little thing, let me light your candle. 'Cause mama I'm sure hard to handle.

— Otis Redding

Love is their whole happiness, yeah but it's all so easy.

— Otis Redding

You are tired and your love is growing cold. My love is growing stronger as our affair, grows old.

— Otis Redding