A Quote by Wilson Pickett

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

Wilson Pickett

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Arms Band Heard Knew Mine Needed Singing

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Wilson Pickett
American - Singer
March 18, 1941 - January 19, 2006

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

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

Paul Rodgers

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

Janis Joplin

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

Elvis wore a halo. Otis Redding did, too. You knew you were playing with a star when you played with them.

Donald Dunn

Before I knew it, I was singing, 'I'm so tired of being alone,' and that's Al right there. From then, my attitude was, 'Let Otis be Otis and James be James. I'm not going to emulate them anymore.'

Al Green

Where I came from in the country, there was no place to hear pop music like Little Richard and people like that. Later, I heard James Brown, Otis Redding, The Drifters, The Four Aces, The Ink Spots.

Percy Sledge

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

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?