Otis Redding Quotes

This loneliness won't leave me alone.

When I go into the studio, I'm strictly for business... I don't like any fooling around in the studio.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.