Words matter. These are the best Wilson Pickett Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I got very bored with the music business.
If I’m not getting played on the radio and I’m not making any money, I have nothing to lose by telling the truth.
I had recorded a song ‘If You Need Me’ for the Correc-Tone label, but it was a small label and distribution was a problem.
If you get the disco or rap format on the radio, an R&B record doesn’t fit, because it will break up the mood.
The baddest woman in my book… my mother. I get scared of her now. She used to hit me with anything, skillets, stove wood.
I write about things that are really happening, serious things.
All my ideas have blown away with the wind.
I thought wasn’t nobody supposed to get gold records except those people on Motown, like Smokey Robinson and Diana Ross.
I perform as much as I can, to the extent I don’t want to sell myself out.
When I started buying my mother all these homes, like a second home in Kentucky, where I moved most of my family, they began to rely on my wallet.
Soul is R&B.
I don’t want to stay in the graveyard era of music.
Me, I’m very happy with the fruit I’ve gotten out of my career.
I took five hit records to Memphis, and ‘634-5789’ was stolen from me totally. Those songs are worth millions. I’ve never understood how someone could just steal your song like that.
Disco music can only take you so far because it’s plastic.
Sometimes it’s more than you can bear to be on the road and take care of all that other stuff.
One of the secretaries at Atlantic Records caught me pinching one of the other secretaries on the butt one morning. She said, ‘My, you sure are wicked.’
Joe Stubbs was very jealous of me, especially after ‘I Found a Love.’ We’d be on stage and he’d lay traps for me, make me look bad.
I took a long rest period. I didn’t know heads or tails of what anybody wanted; it seemed as if R&B had been put on the shelf.
I don’t do disco.
I heard Otis Redding singing ‘These Arms of Mine’ and I knew that was the band I needed.
If you leave God and go to the devil, you’re going to go to hell.
You see, I wanted to sing gospel, but I wanted to make me some money, too.
People like me and Aretha Franklin and Joe Tex, we had predicted that inside of five years disco would be all over, that it was just a fad. But we didn’t anticipate being knocked out of the pocket altogether.
When I make a record, I want to use some electronics, although I still want to keep things pretty basic.
Anytime you’ve got artists singing songs, doing grooves that they don’t want to do, it’s terrible.
Motown was pop, Atlantic was R&B.
We used to have a lot of fun. We got cheated out of a lot of money, but we seemed to enjoy ourselves anyway.
Singing like I do is very hard, and as you get older, it’s getting harder and harder all the time.
I used to get a lot of fan mail.
