Wilson Pickett

“Detroit, my lord, what a place.”

“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.”

“All disco singers are non-professionals who can't do live shows. It loses what black people have created.”

“I don't bother anybody, but I don't let people walk over me.”

“I don't want to die on the stage.”

“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.”

“I have allergies, so I use an inhaler, but it's all right.”

“Disco music can only take you so far because it's plastic.”

“There are no Soul singer Wilson Pickett singers in disco.”

“I can't keep singing 'Midnight Hour' for the rest of life. I gotta change.”

“I heard Otis Redding singing 'These Arms of Mine' and I knew that was the band I needed.”

“I made two or three albums with money from my own pocket, but I couldn't get them released or played on the radio. I got tired of beating my brains out. I got very depressed. I took a break from the business. Then I got bored with that and had to come back.”

“Soul is R&B.”

“I think people are entitled to have a new album by Wilson Pickett in their homes every year.”

“I write about things that are really happening, serious things.”

“We used to have a lot of fun. We got cheated out of a lot of money, but we seemed to enjoy ourselves anyway.”

“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.”

“You can talk about all the great guitarists you want Jimi Hendrix or whoever but as far as I'm concerned, Duane Allman is the best. No one ever played like him.”

“You see, I wanted to sing gospel, but I wanted to make me some money, too.”

“I don't want to stay in the graveyard era of music.”