Wilson Pickett

“The R&B will always prevail. It will always last. The blues will always last.”

“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.”

“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.'”

“The older songs were better songs, because they had lyrics with a story to tell. Aretha and Otis told stories.”

“If I wasn't in show business I don't know what I would have been - a wanderer or something, you know? But God blessed me with the talent and the chance. I knocked on enough doors, and this is what I can give myself credit for.”

“Sometimes it's more than you can bear to be on the road and take care of all that other stuff.”