Otis Redding famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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. Concentrate and practice every single day.
-- Otis Redding

#Song #Writing #Thinking
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

#Horse #Singing #Acres
This loneliness won't leave me alone.
-- Otis Redding

#Loneliness #Leave Me Alone #Leaving Me
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

#Summer #Nice #Weather
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

#Growing Up #Sunday #Night
When I go into the studio, I'm strictly for business... I don't like any fooling around in the studio.
-- Otis Redding

#Fooling Around
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

#Travel #Loneliness #Home
Sitting in the morning sun, I'll be sitting when the evening comes
-- Otis Redding

#Morning #Sun #Evening
R-E-S-P-E-C-T, take out the TCP.
-- Otis Redding

#Explanation

What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of health and disease, of joy or sorrow. There are times in our lives when we seem to go singing on our way, and when the beauty of the world sets itself like a quiet harmony to the song we uplift.
That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else's heart.
Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
Iâ€™m not a fan of â€˜write what you know.â€™ If you donâ€™t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing â€˜The Year of Living Biblically.â€™ That was kind of the point â€“ to learn.
I can write better than anyone who can write faster,
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
Goodbye, my almost lover. Goodbye, my hopeless dream. I'm trying not to think about you, can't you just let me be? So long, my luckless romance, my back is turned on you. Should've known you'd bring me heartache. Almost lovers always do.
Think it over, think it under.
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.

Otis Redding famous quotes

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