Detroit Quote by Wilson Pickett Download Open image “Detroit, my lord, what a place.” — Wilson Pickett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Detroit God Lord Place
Detroit, it's just an incredible city overall. The people here are so friendly and very outgoing. — Andre Drummond Copy Share Image
I'm born and bred out of Detroit. Detroit is an interesting place. You've got to be from somewhere. — Sixto Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Detroit was really fun, FYI, in case anybody wants to go to Detroit. I love it. I did. — Mila Kunis Copy Share Image
Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Detroit is a place where we've had it pretty tough. But there is a generosity here and a well of kindness that goes deep. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
I made two or three albums with money from my own pocket, but I couldn't get them released or played on the radio. I… — Wilson Pickett Copy Share Image
If I'm not getting played on the radio and I'm not making any money, I have nothing to lose by telling the truth. — Wilson Pickett Copy Share Image
We used to have a lot of fun. We got cheated out of a lot of money, but we seemed to enjoy ourselves anyway. — Wilson Pickett Copy Share Image
One of the secretaries at Atlantic Records caught me pinching one of the other secretaries on the butt one morning. She said, 'My, you… — Wilson Pickett Copy Share Image
Berry Gordy believed in owning the artist for life and controlling everything: the money, the station wagons, everything. — Wilson Pickett Copy Share Image
I took five hit records to Memphis, and '634-5789' was stolen from me totally. Those songs are worth millions. I've never understood how someone… — Wilson Pickett Copy Share Image
Put your hands on your hip, let your back bone slip. Do the Watusi, like my little Lucy. — Wilson Pickett Copy Share Image
Anytime you've got artists singing songs, doing grooves that they don't want to do, it's terrible. — Wilson Pickett Copy Share Image
The baddest woman in my book... my mother. I get scared of her now. She used to hit me with anything, skillets, stove wood. — Wilson Pickett Copy Share Image
I'd start to sing, and the record would start skipping. You'd be skipping along with it. Those were the days, my friend. We'd look… — Wilson Pickett Copy Share Image
Detroit, the heart of the country... I grew up on 10 Mile, 2 miles better than 8 Mile. — Kristen Bell Copy Share Image
Some of the friendliest, friendliest people you're going to meet are going to be in Detroit. — Keegan-Michael Key Copy Share Image
My mom is from Ghana, and my dad is from Detroit, so I would go back and forth to Africa a lot. — Sam Richardson Copy Share Image
I think when you saw this year's playoffs, Miami and Detroit have a pretty fierce rivalry now. Also, the Suns and San Antonio look… — John Starks Copy Share Image
My eight years in Detroit, obviously, were my most successful years managing. I think that Pittsburgh and Detroit are probably very, very similar. We… — Jim Leyland Copy Share Image
I got this tiger head ring that's similar to a Cartier ring. I had my jeweler Sean from Detroit make it similar to the… — Big Sean Copy Share Image
You also had in Detroit that summer, an early variation of Ferguson. A black prostitute was shot in the back by police. And all… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
One of my strongest memories is my father playing bongos in the living room in Detroit listening to Motown radio. He was this skinny… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them… — Julian Bond Copy Share Image
“As I rode back to Detroit, a vision of Henry Ford's industrial empire kept passing before my eyes. In my ears, I heard the… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
The Obama administration seems to be following what might be called 'the Detroit pattern increasing taxes, harassing businesses, and pandering to unions. In the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When I thought about Detroit, I would think big city, very urban - not a lot of places to walk around, not a lot… — Erin Cummings Copy Share Image
