A Quote by Janis Joplin

I started singing rhythmically, and now I'm learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it

Janis Joplin

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Instead Just Learning Now Over Over It Push Singing Sliding Song Started

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Janis Joplin
American - Singer
January 19, 1943 - October 4, 1970

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

Wilson Pickett

My parents' record collection was the music I was hearing as long as I can remember, and I would play Otis Redding over and over again.

Jamie xx

When I was 14, I heard Otis Redding in a club local to me, and I was blown away. It leaped out at me and went straight to my heart. I set my sights on singing like that.

Paul Rodgers

Remember those black-and-white films with Frank Sinatra? Those guys looked like men and they were only 27! Listen to Otis Redding singing 'Try A Little Tenderness'. That was a man who understood what a man has to know in the world. Show me a real man now! Where are they?

Chrissie Hynde

When I started playing, I played in R&B bands. I played James Brown, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding and all that.

Neil Peart

I was just a music lover who wondered what it would sound like if Otis Redding strapped on a guitar and played in a punk band. That's it.

Benjamin Booker

I was just a music lover who wondered what it would sound like if Otis Redding strapped on a guitar and played in a punk band. Thats it.

Benjamin Booker

Bob Dylan and John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen, these are soul guys. Bruce Springsteen might not sing like Otis Redding, but he sings with white soul. He's singing and he's writing songs from the bottom of his gut.

Robin Thicke

As a kid, I loved to sing along to the Drifters and Otis Redding.

Paolo Nutini

I got the idea of what a band should be from listening to Booker T and Otis Redding.

Paul Rodgers

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

Lewis Capaldi

I grew up loving Etta James and Aretha Franklin and Al Green and Otis Redding, and I just love old-school R&B. It's just music that moves you and grooves you, and it was very important, I think, for music.

Elle King

Beyonce, Otis Redding, Led Zeppelin, Stevie Wonder, and Adele are a few of my favorites.

Jenny Han

I'm a real Otis Redding fan, and I just think he sounds so good. He sounds like he's always at the end of a long day, and he just won't give up. I just love his wearied devotion - that beautiful, beautiful, weathered sound.

Lizz Wright

My father was a singer. So it just kind of happened that one Sunday while my dad was singing, I just walked out and stood next to him, and I started singing the song that he was leading, and I sang it in perfect pitch.