Being Quote by Wilson Pickett

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

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

There are no Soul singer Wilson Pickett singers in disco.

— Wilson Pickett

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

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

Berry Gordy believed in owning the artist for life and controlling everything: the money, the station wagons, everything.

— Wilson Pickett

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

Disco music can only take you so far because it's plastic.

— Wilson Pickett

Put your hands on your hip, let your back bone slip. Do the Watusi, like my little Lucy.

— Wilson Pickett

Anytime you've got artists singing songs, doing grooves that they don't want to do, it's terrible.

— Wilson Pickett

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

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