Otis Redding quotes
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“This loneliness won't leave me alone.”
-- Otis ReddingSource : Song: Dock Of The Bay, Album: Dreams To Remember: The Otis Redding Anthology
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“When I go into the studio, I'm strictly for business... I don't like any fooling around in the studio.”
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“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.”
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“Sitting in the morning sun, I'll be sitting when the evening comes”
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Source : Eleanor Brown (2011). “The Weird Sisters”, p.337, Penguin
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Source : Song: Almost Lover, Album: One Cell in the Sea, 2007
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“Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.”
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