Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Otis Redding

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Otis Redding.

Last updated on December 3, 2024.

Otis Ray Redding Jr. was an American singer and songwriter. He is considered one of the greatest singers in the history of American popular music and a seminal artist in soul music and rhythm and blues. Nicknamed the "King of Soul", Redding's style of singing gained inspiration from the gospel music that preceded the genre. His singing style influenced many other soul artists of the 1960s.

American - Musician | September 9, 1941 - December 10, 1967

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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. 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 as you heard somebody else do it.

Otis Redding

I love England from head to toe. I love the weather, the people. I was there in the summer and it was nice. The people are so groovy.

Otis Redding

As I was growing up, I did a lot of talent shows. I won fifteen Sunday nights straight in a series of talent shows in Macon. I showed up the sixteenth night, and they wouldn't let me go on any more. Whatever success I had was through the help of the good Lord.

Otis Redding

If I were to leave the U.S., I'd live in England. But I'd never leave the U.S. I own a 400-acre farm in Macon, Georgia. I raise cattle and hogs. I own horses, too. I love horses as much as singing. I like to hunt on horseback.

Otis Redding

R-E-S-P-E-C-T, take out the TCP.

Otis Redding

This loneliness won't leave me alone.

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 as you heard somebody else do it.

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 just gon' sit at the dock of the bay, watching the tide roll away. Sittin' on the dock of the bay, wastin' time.

Otis Redding

Sitting in the morning sun, I'll be sitting when the evening comes

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