15 Quotes by Otis Redding

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.

This loneliness won’t leave me alone.

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.

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.

Take my hand, don’t be afraid. I’m wanna prove every word I say.